"Medical Examiner: Police Chokehold Killed Eric Garner, Death
Ruled A Homicide"
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Racial tensions among police and the public continue
to worsen in America, as another white police officer has been
allowed to escape without answering in a court of law, in the death
of an unarmed black man. Last month it was police officer Darren
Wilson the grand jury let escape scot-free in Ferguson, Missouri,
regarding the shooting death of unarmed black teen, Mike Brown.
Wilson shot Brown 6 times in cold blood.
Eric Garner (right)
This month it is unarmed black man, Eric Garner, who
has been denied justice in death. New York police officer, Daniel
Pantaleo, put Garner in a chokehold. Despite the defenseless man's
protests that he cannot breathe, the pile on of officers continue
for several minutes, with Pantaleo essentially choking Garner to
death.
Eric Garner being put in a fatal chokehold by police (right)
A New York grand jury cleared the officer of any
wrongdoing, despite the fact a medical examiner stated the chokehold
and compressions killed Garner. This is an injustice. The chokehold
was unnecessary. To further ignore a man's pleas for air for
minutes, while you choke the life out of his body, via excessive
force and police brutality, is murder.
STORY SOURCE
No indictment for NYC cop in videotaped chokehold death of
black man
8 hours ago - A white New York City police officer
was cleared Wednesday in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man
stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes - a case
that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police
shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
The decision by the Staten Island grand jury not to
indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo added to the tensions that have
simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner. In the
neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief
and chants of "Eric Garner."
His father, Benjamin Carr, urged calm and said the
ruling made no sense. "It's just a license to kill a black man," he
said, calling the justice system "not worth a damn." Jennie Chambers
works nearby and saw Garner daily. "Cold-blooded murder!" she said.
"We saw it on TV, it's on video. The whole world saw it. Ferguson,
now us."...
