Something, very important, in the GJ testimony allowed the officer to not be charged. We’re not privy to it yet.
...
Only a limited amount of information has been released and that took an order from a judge at the request of the prosecutor.
Pantaleo’s lawyer has released some information. Pantaleo testified and answered 20 questions from the jury and explained what happened in the videos. He did not use a chokehold. As he pulled Garner down using an approved technique, Garner pushed him up against a glass window that buckled. He feared going through the window and that’s when his left arm went around Garner’s neck. Regardless, the coroner still didn’t find evidence of choking such as a damaged trachea or fractured hyoid bone. If anything, Pantaleo was careful not to apply pressure to the windpipe. The palm of his left hand was facing outward, and contact was made to the side of Garner’s neck by the top of his left forearm. Garner appeared to be conscious as he went down. He supported himself with his arms.
It’s a chokehold. That’s the generic term of lock around the neck. Now legions of lemmings declare no such thing exists. Parsing words and claiming well “trachea not damaged” is utterly laughable. Damage to the neck and body by compression. I guess that was just the invisible Steinway grand piano that landed out of the sky no one saw?...haha