NEW YORK -- A grand jury has declined to indict a New York City police officer who used an apparent chokehold on a man who died after the confrontation on Staten Island, CBS News has confirmed.
Eric Garner, a father of six, died in July after police officer Daniel Pantaleo attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
The grand jury began reviewing evidence in the case on Sept. 29.
Jonathon Moore, an attorney for the victim's family, said Wednesday he is "astonished by the decision."
In cellphone video of the Garner incident, Pantaleo is seen placing his arm around Garner's neck and then taking him to the ground after Garner refuses to be handcuffed.
Garner is heard saying repeatedly, "I can't breathe!" He died a short time later.
The New York City Medical Examiner's office ruled Garner's death a homicide, caused by the officer's apparent chokehold as well as chest and neck compressions and prone positioning "during physical restraint by police."
An independent forensic investigator hired by the Garner family also agreed with the medical examiner's findings.
The use of chokeholds is banned in the New York Police Department. In September, Commissioner Bill Bratton said in September that officers will get annual training on use of force tactics.
Garner's death was among a series of controversial fatal confrontations this year between police and young African-American males. The city has seen ongoing protests since a grand jury in St. Louis County, Mo. declined on Nov. 22 to indict Darren Wilson, a police officer accused of killing teen Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.
New York police have been preparing for days for the possibility of widespread protests in reaction to the grand jury decision.
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Yeah, body cameras will fix the problem.
you'll all still allI don't particularly like you, but this I can appreciate.
Yeah, body cameras will fix the problem.They will expose it at least. Provided the cameras they would wear can't conveniently run out of juice or otherwise "malfunction" at crucial moments.
On second thought, that's misleading mathematically, because hating something a lot could be plotted an inverse quantity of like, and I just don't give a shit about how much melanin one has.
The cops didn't need to strangle this guy. His "crime" was trivial and he posed no threat.
This situation is worthy of outrage.
Unfortunately, since certain folks love to "cry wolf" so damn much, it probably won't get the attention it deserves.
Yeah, body cameras will fix the problem.They will expose it at least. Provided the cameras they would wear can't conveniently run out of juice or otherwise "malfunction" at crucial moments.
Even presuming a camera system was developed that recorded incidents as conclusively as the Garner video, you can't fix a system by adding features to it. Only thing putting cameras on police will do is increase police budgets and raise stocks for camera manufactures.
Nearly all of these tests have yet to be completed, but Ariel recently co-authored a study on the practice in Rialto, California, where he found that police officers who weren't wearing cameras were twice as likely to use force as those who were. During the 12-month experiment, the police department also saw a reduction in citizens' complaints compared with previous years.
Hopefully NYC riots tonight because of it. Tear the house down.
It's not some magic elixir that instantly fixes all problems, no, but some early tests are showing positive results:Quote from: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/do-police-body-cameras-work-ferguson/383323/Nearly all of these tests have yet to be completed, but Ariel recently co-authored a study on the practice in Rialto, California, where he found that police officers who weren't wearing cameras were twice as likely to use force as those who were. During the 12-month experiment, the police department also saw a reduction in citizens' complaints compared with previous years.
The main thing is to combine the usage of body cameras with other changes and initiatives.
Yeah, body cameras will fix the problem.
On second thought, that's misleading mathematically, because hating something a lot could be plotted an inverse quantity of like, and I just don't give a shit about how much melanin one has.Wow, this situation is so bad even JayDubya is like "Wait, hold on guys, you might've taken it too far."
The cops didn't need to strangle this guy. His "crime" was trivial and he posed no threat.
This situation is worthy of outrage.
Unfortunately, since certain folks love to "cry wolf" so damn much, it probably won't get the attention it deserves.
less civil unrest
less civil unrest
less civil unrest
Moreso the clear video evidence of blatantly excessive force, and little ability to demonize the victim. Brown allegedly robbed a store and punched an officer - that justifies his death in the mind of a lot of (white) people. Whereas Garner is on video complying after being taken down and ultimately choked to death.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/23/new-hs-class-teaches-kids-how-to-deal-with-cops/
:fbm
How do cops get fired in America
How do you get fired as an American cop?
Put that fucker in gen pop.
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_paid_out_100000_to_w.html#incart_river
I'm just gonna put that here rather than starting a third thread for Tamir Rice...(12 year old shot in Cleveland by this asshole cop linked)
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_paid_out_100000_to_w.html#incart_river
I'm just gonna put that here rather than starting a third thread for Tamir Rice...(12 year old shot in Cleveland by this asshole cop linked)
So this dude was declared unfit for duty, performed miserably during firearms training, had already choked and beat a woman, and was still allowed to ride around in a cruiser? Can't wait to see what they come up with as to why this dude doesn't get indicted
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Connecting police officers killing black folks to your beef with white rappers and then connecting it all to Bill Cosby is a pretty good trick.
How do you get fired as an American cop?
So you don’t think this is a race thing?http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/qa-an-nypd-officers-real-talk-on-garner-case.html
No, it’s not a race thing. It’s a Ray Kelly thing. That man singlehandedly ruined this department. When I came up as a rookie, you were assigned an older cop who had been around and knew what they were doing. We were taught that you catch more flies with honey. Basically, if you let the small things go — like the guy selling loosies or weed or whatever on the corner — then when the big shit happens, like homicide or burglary, those are the same guys who will tell you all about it. If they hate you, they won’t tell you shit.
QuoteSo you don’t think this is a race thing?http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/qa-an-nypd-officers-real-talk-on-garner-case.html
No, it’s not a race thing. It’s a Ray Kelly thing. That man singlehandedly ruined this department. When I came up as a rookie, you were assigned an older cop who had been around and knew what they were doing. We were taught that you catch more flies with honey. Basically, if you let the small things go — like the guy selling loosies or weed or whatever on the corner — then when the big shit happens, like homicide or burglary, those are the same guys who will tell you all about it. If they hate you, they won’t tell you shit.
Sound familiar?
Well, it turns out that a grand jury DID come through with an indictment of someone in the Garner case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/ramsey-orta-indictment-eric-garner_n_6264746.html
(http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/images/made/uploads/photos/reallycreepyguy340_340_275_86_sha-40.jpg)QuoteSo you don’t think this is a race thing?http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/qa-an-nypd-officers-real-talk-on-garner-case.html
No, it’s not a race thing. It’s a Ray Kelly thing. That man singlehandedly ruined this department. When I came up as a rookie, you were assigned an older cop who had been around and knew what they were doing. We were taught that you catch more flies with honey. Basically, if you let the small things go — like the guy selling loosies or weed or whatever on the corner — then when the big shit happens, like homicide or burglary, those are the same guys who will tell you all about it. If they hate you, they won’t tell you shit.
Sound familiar?
aAaHHh those truth darts :stahp
i appreciate that Savage is on the right side of this, but he doesn't like so many others (jaydubya) need to remind us that they were on the side of Wilson in Ferguson :pacspit
Meh. In both cases, the evidence is plain.
It is only reasonable to side with an officer shooting a perpetrator of robbery and assault in self-defense.
It is only reasonable to side against an officer strangling someone to death for no reason other than to enforce the trivial "crime" of buying cigarettes in New Jersey and selling them in New York.
The blood of 2 executed police officers is on the hands of Mayor de Blasio. May God bless their families and may they rest in peace.
It's crazy that no one has asked Guiliani to list one thing Obama, Sharpton, Holder, or De Blasio have said to suggest killing cops is cool.
De Blasio is rising up my "favorite cacs" list. I had read his term started rather rocky but I fully support his handling of this situation, especially his comments about raising a black child. Anyone who took that as racism or the race card can fuck off.
If the NYPD runs a slow-motion coup against the freely elected mayor of New York, then it is running a slow-motion coup against all the people of New York. There is no exemption from this fundamental truth about the way this country and its system is supposed to work. The military -- and its civilian analogues in Langley and in the precinct houses -- always is subordinate to the civil power which, no matter how much it may chafe them, means that they always are subordinate to politicians. If we render our torturers superior to the political institutions of the government, and if we render the police superior to the civil power of elected officials, then we essentially have empowered independent standing armies to conduct our wars and enforce our laws, and self-government descends into bloody farce.
But, alas, in the past few weeks, we have shown ourselves to be relatively at peace with that very thing -- as long as the torture is done in the prisons overseas and the judicial killing is done in the streets of the ghetto, and as long as our fear of some omnipotent Other is what drives our politics. In turn, and in its mind, the country has now turned peaceful mass protest into some sort of violent revolution, and it has converted the murderous rage of a criminal lunatic into the ultimate expression of the cries for justice that have been heard in the last month in Ferguson, and Cleveland, and on Staten Island. It is a deeply noxious perversion of reality, and it has been working like a charm. Very soon, the names of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice and Eric Garner will be as unknown to our national dialogue again as are the names of those faceless, bartered souls who languished in shackles in Poland and in Thailand. The last thing to go to the waterboard is the tattered remnant of what we thought ourselves to be.