Thousands of protesters took to the streets in NYC in anger over a grand jury verdict to not indict officer Daniel Pantaleo after he strangled unarmed Eric Garner to death over a confrontation for selling untaxed cigarettes and breaking up a fight.
Protesters chanted “I can’t breathe”, which were the final words of Garner, who suffered from asthesma, as he was in the throes of an illegal chokehold by Pantaleo.
The grand jury did indict one person over the incident, however….the man who filmed the killing.
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December 3, 2014 is just one of the many really, really sad days for American citizens living on American soil. The verdict in the Eric Garner case tells every American citizen that it IS legal to be killed by a police officer for allegedly committing a crime in the state of New York. I am NOT looking at gender here, nor am I looking for what they do for a living, I am simply saying that a human being can be killed by another human being and it is legal in the state of New York!
I – for one would like to read the transcripts from the Grand Jury – This selling of loose cigarettes was a Federal Government Law against this activity and the police officers were doing their job in trying to make an arrest . So why didn’t this victim co-operate ???
The nazis were just doing there job as well. Just because something is law doesn’t make it right.
The white people and black people need to unite and defeat this thing called police brutality it’s only going to get worse
This is BS
This is all lies that keep people upset. The headlines are blown out of portion. Why not give the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
how can you co-operate when the cop has a choke hold and all you wanna do is breathe ? why couldn’t the cop write him a ticket and let him go ? was he hurting anyone? it isn’t like he was selling drugs on the corner … and remember that most laws are unjust and borderline illegal according to our constitution
Why can’t we all just get along!!!??? I am sick of hearing & seeing all of this c**p!!! There’s more important things to worry about, this is NOT one of them!!! For instance, there was a 21 month old baby that was murdered here in Hartsville, S C. The ones that conspired to kill her were black, and that were her parents, NO RIOTING BROKE OUT FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT POOR BABY GIRL!!!!!!!!!!
This is one of them… Because white people don’t kill people too…
Exactly. Plus, his rap sheet is a mile long and I believe he had already done time for doing the same thing the cops were there about.