Posted on 12/04/2014 7:38:10 AM PST by FR_addict
Why is a guy selling cigarettes put in a choke hold? I can think of no reasonable answer.
Thanks for bringing up the reality of NYC’s new mayor and his orders to arrest sellers of cigs. How many street cops and a sgt were in on the arrest.
Now, thanks to Google, we have the documentation.
11 Facts About the Eric Garner Case the Media Won’t Tell You
Newsmax
11 Facts About the Eric Garner Case the Media Won’t Tell You
Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:40 AM
By: Jim Meyers
Sources in the mainstream media expressed outrage after a grand jury declined to indict a New York City policeman in the death of Eric Garner, but there are 11 significant facts that many of them have chosen to overlook:
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1. There is no doubt that Garner was resisting an arrest for illegally selling untaxed cigarettes. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik put it succinctly: “You cannot resist arrest. If Eric Garner did not resist arrest, the outcome of this case would have been very different,” he told Newsmax. “He wouldn’t be dead today.
“Regardless of what the arrest was for, the officers don’t have the ability to say, ‘Well, this is a minor arrest, so we’re just going to ignore you.’”
2. The video of the July 17 incident clearly shows Garner, an African-American, swatting away the arms of a white officer seeking to take him into custody, telling him: “Don’t touch me!”
3. Garner, 43, had history of more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980, on charges including assault and grand larceny.
4. At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false impersonation.
5. The chokehold that Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo put on Garner was reported to have contributed to his death. But Garner, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 350 pounds, suffered from a number of health problems, including heart disease, severe asthma, diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Pantaleo’s attorney and police union officials argued that Garner’s poor health was the main cause of his death.
Read;
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/eric-garner-chokehold-grand-jury-police/2014/12/04/id/611058/
I never knew that City Police were responsible for enforcing Tax Law!
Those f-ing cops. Executed him as he stood there.
Watch the video.
The cops could have had 10 other options rather than choke the man to death.
Where’s the humanity?
DeBlasio is a Marxist dictator, PERIOD. He is backed up by a Marxist-led and dominated City Council. PERIOD.
He wants total power over peoples lives, as did Mayor Bloomturd. He wants all the cigarette tax income he can get for a literally bankrupt, corrupt city.
Meanwhile, he wants to keep angry black youth (and some Hispanic youth) on the streets to act as his “shock troops” or “stormtroopers” or, in the words of the late scholar WEB DuBois, as “cannonfodder for the Communist Party USA = the Party’s “lumpenproletariat, the lowest of the low on the economic ladder, people who have nothing to lose by committing violence.
In this case both the old Reds and new Reds need the “lumpens” to do their street fighting against the “establishment”, which is why DeBlasio has set the police up for such confrontations when they enforce stupid little rules.
And if the police screw up as they did in the Garner case, then DeBlasio will impose very restrictive operational orders on them (as he has just announced). A hamstrung police force in a city such as New York is an invitation to absolute disaster, and that is why guys like Obama, Holder, and DeBlasio want - an opportunity to impose an authoritarian type government on the people as a whole.
Out with the Constitution. In with the CommieSar.
Hitler used riots in the streets to attain power and the reds always claimed that there were riots and plotters around, so they seized complete control of the governments where they were in power or had seized power by aggression, and did what they wanted to.
Just watch what Holder and DeBlasio do to the police. It was all planned many decades ago in Moscow. The “police” have always been viewed by the Leftists as the most important “front line” authority figures that they had to control or eliminate in America and the old Free Europe.
In Latin America, communist terrorists and guerrillas made the police their primary targets of assassination and bombing, as did the Viet Cong in So. Vietnam, and ISIS is doing in Iraq today.
What Obama, Holder and DeBlasio are doing has long been written in history books, but I wonder if anyone with intelligence has bothered to reread them to see what “is to come” if they succeed.
What could happen is a revolt.
Judicial disgrace - No way no how. There s more to this case than the media is presenting to the public. ferguson and NY City issues are being orchestrated to cause maximum effect for race baiting that does not exist. The guy had a history with the police, he was on probation and he refused to cooperate with the Police. Think for a moment that a guy who has a history with the police and feels he has done no wrong is on probation and has a complaint against him. so the police try to get him to go peacefully and he acts like an idiot. the police did no wrong
My oldest son is pursuing a career in law enforcement. You can bet the farm I'm doing everything in my power to talk him out of it after Ferguson, and now NYC.
“How many policemen were involved in taking down this one man for a crime less serious than Jay Walking?”
I posted the following in an earlier thread. It may provide an answer to your question:
I heard a caller to an NYC radio station today, who claimed to be a cop in that Staten Island precinct, state that NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks (Who resigned in October after 28 years) was at a community meeting in that SI neighborhood the morning of this incident. Allegedly, at this meeting local shop owners complained to him about the amount of un-taxed cigarettes being sold in the area. The cop said that Chief Banks instructed the local precinct commander to do something about this ASAP. He in turn put pressure on his officers to deal with the situation, which this cop interpreted to mean make some arrests. That is why, he claimed, the 4+ cops responded to the incident along with the sergeant. Obviously, there is no way to know if this is true, but if it is it could explain why the POs were so adamant about arresting this guy. If true, I wonder if the Grand Jury heard about this?
That's not true in the Ferguson, Mo. case. The Prosecutor's office released ALL evidence in the Michael Brown / Darren Wilson case once that evidence was provided to the Grand Jury, typically on the same day. Further, upon conclusion of the Grand Jury's work, he then released all testimony provided to the Grand Jury.
That was an unusual move, designed to provide transparency to the Grand Jury process and all evidence presented in the case. Anyone could see the evidence presented for themselves, and read the transcripts of the testimony for themselves.
Anyone who cared to read the testimony provided to the grand jury quickly learned that so-called "witnesses" who told the media that Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back crumbled under examination in the Grand Jury. One by one when presented with the forensic evidence that Brown was not shot in the back, they quickly retracted the statements they made to the media out of fear of being prosecuted for perjury in front of the Grand Jury.
That makes the entire "hands up, don't shoot!" meme that's been propagandized in the black community with the cooperation of the lieberal lamestream media A LIE.
IMO, how the Prosecutor's office handled this case was a textbook example of how the Grand Jury process SHOULD WORK.
Let’s here it for Judicial Grace and no White Men that would ever dare to be a police officer. Works for me.
Maybe the police should have a little respect for citizens. It's a two way street my friend.
You are probably right. (Don’t tell my husband I admitted I might be wrong about something!) ;-)
Arm around the neck is not a chokehold. Wikipedia defines chokehold as having both arms engaged in a figure 4 configuration with one arm supplying choking force to the other. In a takedown of a person resisting arrest, arm around the neck used as a hold in a conflict situation is not prohibited by police departments including the New York City Police.
The media, including Fox, have headlined the “chokehold” terminology.
Did Garner die as a result of the pressure put by the police to his neck? Or was a severe asthmatic attack brought on by general exertion of the conflict and the emotions of the situation?
And are we certain that this man’s death was brought about as a result of prejudice or racism?
That’s great, glad you enjoyed your movies. But why arrest people for such a minor transgression?
I tend to agree.
BUMP!
The man said he couldn’t breathe and now he is dead. Why don’t you explain how he could actually be breathing since you are knowledgeable on that sort of thing. Cops are entitled to use the amount of force needed to subdue a criminal, they are not authorized to be executioners unless absolutely necessary.
“And are we certain that this man’s death was brought about as a result of prejudice or racism?”
The man's daughter said it wasn't racism on CNN last night.
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