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It's hard to take an autopsy report seriously when in one breath it states there was zero damage to the airway and then in the next says he died as a result of neck compression, prone positioning, and pre-existing health conditions. The autopsy report is a fabrication clearly meant to guide this narrative down the path of least culpability and that is why I have posted this.

The videos, the best and only real evidence we have, clearly shows that Garner's neck was not being compressed when he was complaining of difficulty breathing. What's more, it shows that he was on his side in the recovery position throughout the video except for a few seconds in the initial struggle to take him down. He was not prone when he was complaining of difficulty breathing.

Only after he was down, on his side, with Pantaleo's hands on the side of his head did we hear the repeated complaints of difficulty breathing. There was no neck compression and he was on his side and he was talking which means, as you have already stated, he was breathing. He clearly stopped breathing a short time after all of that however. and that is the real question, when did he really stop breathing? There on the sidewalk or an hour later in the back of an ambulance on the way to the hospital?

More to the point, the video also shows that Garner was completely unresponsive and limp. What's more, I have watched that video dozens of times and I sure don't see any chest movement to suggest meaningful respirations. His lack of muscle tone, lack of responsiveness, and lack of breathing surely suggests a man in major distress-someone who ought to be receiving CPR for example.

The initial line was that he died of a heart attack in the back of the ambulance an hour later on the way to the hospital. this is what was reported prior to this becoming a national tipping point. I don't know how anyone with any sense at all can watch video number 2 and then believe that he died an hour later in the back of an ambulance.

What I would like to see is all the data from the lifepak that, as rumor has it, Garner was connected to in the back of the ambulance. This would be very useful and it would be illegal to destroy it so I assume it exists. I'm about as likely to see the holy grail as I am to see Eric Garner's lifepak data however.

So you go ahead and defend that autopsy report but I think anyone with eyes and the capacity to think for themselves will want to believe the videos that have been posted at the top of this thread.