If the cop had stopped choking Garner, administered assistance immediately and Garner had still died, the notion that, even though the choke hold isn't an acceptable practice but at least the officer wasn't a callous individual would have likely carried the day.

Isn't that sad?

This is why the hashtag #blacklivesmatter is necessary. It's not because the cop started off with excessive force, it's because he couldn't hear the cries of pain.

Just like Wilson looked af Mike Brown and saw a demon, this cop heard Garner cry out and thought he was faking.

There's another video that was spread widely a few months or a year ago. A white girl hits a young black man with her car. He is writhing on the street and the cop and witnesses are comforting the girl. He cop is helping her with her story that it wasn' her fault. The implication is that this young man isn't really hurt. He's putting on a show. Black pain isn't the same as white pain.

that can commit genocidal slaughter on many nations of FIRST-americans, men, women, children, old people, a culture that could enslave a whole race of people because the bible told them it was okay, among other rationalizations, a culture that could create a segregated society rivaling SA apartheid when slavery didn't work, a culture that could torture, hang, castrate, burn alive any black person, man, woman or child that dared question the superiority of white people, doesn't care if anyone other than the 'privileged' feels any pain. Some of the ones that are feeling pain are "demons" anyway, as spoken by one of the recent 'protectors' of white privilege in amerikkka. This hypocrisy has always been at the root of what we stand for as a democracy. Not very firm ground. Rome was nothing compared to this shit. Don't get me wrong human history is replete with war, greed, hate of 'others' for various reasons, murder and slaughter on a mass scale, Nanking comes to mind, Rosewood comes to mind and on and on. But for a country that claims to stand for democracy and after 300 years still not be able to provide protection and equal justice under the law because of the skin color of some of it's citizens is continuing hypocrisy of the highest order.

To see itself as the shining beacon of light that at one time said, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these the homeless, the tempest tossed, TO ME: I lift my lamp beside the golden door". That statue is weeping in shame in New York Harbor. America, your hate is showing and hypocrisy is the only thing being shown to the world as a beacon these days.

Big of him.

hoping God blesses them and all those other standard lines so loosely that they're meaningless. It's just another example of some people expressing their religion just for show.

I have a feeling that Pantaleo's apology and rhetoric about offering prayers falls in the same category.

..and I do not accept his apology either just as a citizen, I was outraged to hear his comments... I would be beyond reasonable if I were his immediate family

any time there is a death by police.

To not get an INDICTMENT in any of these cases is beyond the pale. These grand juries were not assembled to determine innocence or guilt, they were assembled to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial. AS the saying goes, a prosecutor can get an indictment on a ham sandwich if it wants to. This case in NYC was on video for everyone to see and hear! Why should minorities trust the system when this is what they get?

I'm so sick of hearing that the USA has the best health care system, the best legal system, the safest and most abundant food system, and on and on...when none of it's true. This country has gotten so full of itself that it's talked itself into believing it's the best at everything just because we're America and that's that.

"These grand juries were not assembled to determine innocence or guilt, they were assembled to determine if there is enough evidence for a trial."

I'm willing to bet that in these cases jurors, regardless of instructions on how a grand jury works...are presuming guilt ot innocence. They'll never admit it...however that's what I believe is at play here...fostered by deeply rooted bigotry and racism.

What a system.

YOU ARE A MURDERER.

You are a violent thug. You have no regard for human life. You are just another bad NYPD officer with a control freak nature and an authoritarian complex.

I feel sorry for your family, because one of them may be your next victim of your choke hold. If you will kill a man for selling cigarettes, I hate to think what you would do if one of your kids or your spouse did something worse.

You should be in prison, and not be free to kill again.

If there is a god, she will make your life a living hell, and I hope that happens. If I were a praying person, I would PRAY for your life to be nothing but misery and pain for the rest of your days.

You got away with murder. Why should anyone ever forgive you. when you won't even admit what you did was evil?

of murder/executions of black males IS happening nationally, in many states and locales. Logic says it should be addressed at the national level. HOLDER!!! Where in the hell are you? Hiding under the desk somewhere? This avoidance and failure to address a serious problem of human and civil rights being abridged by 'thugs' hiding behind a badge is unconscionable. Get your ass in gear, Holder!.

have had enough killing. And that would be policemen themselves. They need to invent some kind of control doctrine other than the empty the magazine doctrine.

Will be very surprised if he's not quickly fired. Looks like a wannabee ufc fighter.

and I love Garner's widow. She is a righteous voice!

I hope the march being planned will be as multi-cultural as the NYC protests have been.

We are having our own "Die in" demonstration here in my home town of New Haven, tomorrow at the Yale Law School building.

standing by and none of them tried to help him. They lifted and threw him on a cart and he died on the way to the hospital. In that same video the killer cop(Pantaleo) was waving to the guy taking the video. He was smiling, knowing he just murder a man. This is the attitude of many cops.

--we can no longer tolerate it.