If you haven't yet read the Breitbart article yesterday, it's a definite must. It fully explains the difference between a choke hold and suppression hold the officer used, and which is sanctioned and taught by the NYPD. Preliminary autopsy showed no injury to Garner's windpipe or neck bones. "According to Garner’s friends, he 'had several health issues: diabetes, sleep apnea, and asthma so severe that he had to quit his job as a horticulturist for the city’s parks department. He wheezed when he talked and could not walk a block without resting, they said.'”
He was selling cigarettes, which he has done for a while I guess. Makes me wonder if with all his health issues, he was also a smoker, which would limit his breathing capabilities. Are we going to require our police officers to ask everyone refusing to comply with a lawful order, what their health problems are before force is used to bring them to compliance?
Here's the link to the article:
This was a vid I linked to FR on.
As a outsider looking on, there is a lack of concern for the citizen. I would have been tempted to enter the arrest process and try to free up the citizen in order for him to breathe easier.