NYPD Choke Guy to Death For Standing On Sidewalk While Black

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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/07/21



NYPD Choke Guy to Death For Standing On Sidewalk While Black
by Abby Zimet
07.21.14 - 12:24 PM

The NYPD is again facing widespread outrage following the release of two horrific videos showing the chokehold death of Eric Garner, 43, an asthmatic Staten Island father of six seen struggling on the ground pleading "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" after he was grabbed by a phalanx of NYPD officers for either what bystanders say was breaking up a fight or what cops say was selling loose untaxed cigarettes for extra money - clearly an offense worthy of death - followed by the spectacle of eight cops and four EMT workers called to the scene standing around doing nothing but rifling through his pockets. Two cops and the EMTs have been reassigned to desk jobs, the city is investigating the use of the banned chokehold, and hundreds of people chanting "Go to the tape!" have protested against the constant police harassment and abuse that is their lives. This time, at least, there is video. Warning: Disturbing scene of thugs in action.

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1. Horrible

This needs to stop NOW!!!

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2. Not a single report on the M$M

about Eric, not one...

[hrmjustin]

3. Elected Officials Call for Justice for Eric Garner — And More Cameras

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Jillian Jorgensen


Outside City Hall Tuesday, city and state elected officials called for justice for Eric Garner — and more cameras recording cops on city streets.

“In New York City, all street encounters should be videoed,” Public Advocate Tish James declared at a rally led by the City Council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus. “All street encounters should be videoed to avoid this from happening again.”

Mr. Garner, 43, died after police used what appears to be a chokehold to bring him to the ground during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes. The incident was caught on camera by several civilians and the video — which Mayor Bill de Blasio declared he was “very troubled” by — was widely circulated by news organizations.

“I am unable to turn away from this compelling indictment of man’s inhumanity to man,” Councilwoman Debi Rose, who represents the Staten Island district where Mr. Garner lived and died, said. “When these images of blatant indifference play over and over, I am sickened by the cavalier attitude of all involved, and frightened, frightened — and so are my constituents, are frightened — that no one took pause to re-think their actions. Did they not hear what the whole world heard? The constrained cries of ‘I can’t breathe?’ over and over and over, until there wasn’t any more?”



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4. Lawmakers: Garner response a ‘defining moment’ for de Blasio

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/07/8549409/lawmakers-garner-response-defining-moment-de-blasio