Police choked 43-year-old Eric Garner of Staten Island to death after the man broke up a fight. They proceeded to accuse him of selling untaxed cigarrettes and eventually wrestled him to the ground.
Garner could be heard saying “I can’t breathe” several times as officers choked and piled on top of him.
The police will continue to get more brutal as the police state continues to increase.
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ARREST & FIRE From PD! SO SAD To Kill This INNOCENT MAN!
Soo thats murder…
don seymour is a dumbass. of course he resisted arrest he was innocent.
Don’t Fk with NYPD
I wouldn’t visit New York if you paid me!
It is said that these types od brutal, murderous, power-hungry officers are the minority and make the good offices look bad. Some years ago, there was a study done on the behavior of the prison population whereby a mock prison was constructed; some of the volunteers where chosen to be guards and some to be inmates. The authority given the guards and the restraints placed on the inmates had a profound impact on the psyche of each group, without proper training or oversight, the tactics of the guards became more brutal every day, and the inmates be came more submissive, but started to plot and scheme; however, the whole experiment blew up. There are no good officers who would allow bad officers to intimidate, harm or kill decent people, without stopping them. We the people of the United States of America are now participants of this same experiment on a massive scale; the mock prison is now our city streets and the guards are the police trained in militant warfare as they are shown no penalties for their actions against the inmates; YOU!
This gorilla mentality within ALL POLICE departments will backfire on them unless they change their ways. This MUST be immediate change.I’ll never visit NEW YORK until it shows change.
There are things that could be done to reign in questionable behavior by police and other public officials.
1. Eliminate both “absolute and qualified immunity” for ALL public officials. If public officials (yes, this includes police officers and their administrators, firefighters, prosecutors, court officials and all other “public servants”) knew that they could be sued personally (and possibly lose everything they own), they would tend to behave themselves. Require all public officials to purchase and maintain “malpractice insurance” as a condition of employment. Insurance companies would be unwilling to “pay out” for a “questionable situation”.
2. Establish and enforce an “video audit trail” whenever there is interaction by any public official with the public. In the case of police and firefighters, no “video audit trail” would mean the inadmissability of “evidence” as well as censure and immediate dismissal with loss of pension for failure to assure that this “video audit trail” is present. “Equipment malfunction” would not be a valid excuse. A “video audit trail” works both ways and would also do much to eliminate the possibility of frivolous lawsuits by the public against public officials as well as assure that public officials “behave themselves”. This is especially true in police interrogation rooms where police-coerced “false confessions” occur with alarming frequency.
3. Prosecutors should be subordinate to the grand jury. Grand juries should be able to indict without needing the prosecutor’s “permission”. Of course, there would be NO absolute or qualified immunity for prosecutors or grand jurors.
Police agencies should not be allowed to “investigate themselves”. Outside, disinterested agencies should do the investigating.
4. Civilian police review boards should be mandatory–they should exclude anyone who has a police background or relatives of police from serving. Civilian police review boards should be able to bring up charges against corrupt police officials and officers as well.
These changes would put the public on an equal footing with our “leaders” (who are actually supposed to be subordinate to us citizens).
There have been many cases where people who have been legally recording police (mis)behavior have been harassed by police, their equipment damaged or destroyed, and charges brought against them. Severe punishment should be meted out to those public officials who interfere with lawful recording by citizens.
New York is a giant cramp hole anyway I’d never go there for anything.
If you can talk, you can breathe. He died of a heart attack. Maybe Obama the drag queen should have monitored his diet