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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Dec 13 19:39:20 2014, in response to Re: Millions March!, posted by Terrapin Station on Sat Dec 13 18:48:13 2014. 1. The lack of an indictment in the Garner and Brown cases are gross miscarriages of justice.2. In particular, the failure of the grand jury in the garner case to indict Officer Pantaleo is an indication that some people (read: the police) are above the law. The recent examples of their egregious conduct in several high-profile cases, reinforces this. 3. Eric Garner was put in a chokehold--on video--by Officer Pantaleo. Such a maneuver has been expressly forbidden by the NYPD's Patrol Guide for the past 21 years. 4. Eric Garner is, in FACT, now dead, and the video in question depicts his last living moments on this earth. 5. The Medical Examiner ruled that Eric Garner's death was a homicide, and that its proximate cause was compression of Garner's airway, leading to hypoxia and cardiac arrest. In other words, he was choked to death. 6. The video depicts Pantaleo choking Garner to death. 7. The video, seen by millions of people, and Garner's dead body, should have been more than enough evidence for a grand jury to indict Pantaleo for criminally negligent homicide, at a minimum. 8. No indictment was forthcoming, which strongly suggests serious problems with the entire grand jury proceeding. Scores of legal experts on both sides of the political aisle have expressed great surprise at the SI DA's failure to obtain what, in one lawyer's words, should have been "an easy indictment". Given that indictrments of police officers are exceedingly rare, it's reasonable to think that certain groups of people, like the police, enjoy a degree of immunity from the law. |
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