ANOTHER SAD CASE WERE THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED
A grand jury decided against an indictment Wednesday in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who died after white police officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold, according to two law enforcement officials.
During his fatal police encounter, Garner raised both hands in the air and told the officers not to touch him. Seconds later, a video shows an officer behind him grab him in a chokehold and pull him to the sidewalk, rolling him onto his stomach.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Garner said repeatedly, his cries muffled into the pavement.
The cause of Garner’s death was “compression of neck (chokehold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police,” the medical examiner’s office has said. The death was ruled a homicide.
A black man dies after a confrontation with a white policeman. Crowds take to the streets incensed, decrying police brutality. And a grand jury is called to hear the case.
The place is not Ferguson, and the case is not Michael Brown’s. It’s Staten Island, New York. And on Wednesday, a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict white Officer Daniel Pantaleo, two officials said, who put African-American Eric Garner in a chokehold.
The New York City Police Department prohibits the move.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe,” Garner cried out after he went down on July 17. Seconds later, the 350-pound man, who suffered from asthma, lay motionless and unresponsive on the sidewalk. An ambulance carried him away on a stretcher.
He was pronounced dead that day at age 43.
Police had suspected him of illegal vending. He had been arrested on the same suspicion two months prior and had a lengthy criminal record, including 30 arrests.
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flawless
I witnessed a similar incident as a child. My neighbor Mr. Bullock was high on pcp and climbing the jungle jim on the playground a few feet from my bed upstairs window and someone called the police. Upon their arrival they starts hitting him with their batons across the hands, back and neck… Supposedly they were trying to get him off the jungle jim and he was merely climbing it while reciting the lyrics of the LOST POETS…. Needless to say he eventually fell and was restrained at his wrists and ankles… Then then toss him in their squad car and he died in route. The autopsy showed that they had busted his ribs and his ribs punctured his heart and lungs… He had suffocated on his own blood. They too were found not guilty, claiming he resisted arrest….
Romelle
wow @Joyce that’s messed up,
I don’t think they understand the value of a life and what life is unless it’s their own. There’s no coming back from being killed, it’s not Call of Duty where you get to start over. The thing is that they’re dehumanizing the whole situation saying he’s resisting arrest. What resistance……I can’t even see how they can justify this. Over a cigarette??? meanwhile the real crooks who manufacture cigarettes that cause the deaths of many everyday go free?? #UNBELIEVABLE
flawless
@Romelle To operate in the manner that they do and act as if they don’t understand that they themselves are to animalistic… It’s as if they still view blacks as subhuman. It’s saddens me to know with time nothing has really changed. Yet I pray that God intervenes, cause there’s gotta be a better way to address this without more casualties…