Thursday, December 4, 2014

On The Eric Garner case

Via Sioux


I believe Holder and gang would have pushed more rioting if this had been down South.

This case is now as dead as the victim.

I’m not surprised by the no-indictment decision of the Staten Island grand jury in the Eric Garner chokehold case. The Garner killing is much, much different than the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Mo.

To start with, Darren Wilson, a white police officer, was alone when he confronted Michael Brown, a black teenager. Eric Garner was approached by a whole team of NYPD cops in Staten Island.
There was no videotape of the Michael Brown shooting so the killing had to be recreated from conflicting eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence. The Eric Garner killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was recorded on an exclusive Daily New videotape.

But what makes the Garner case so much different than Michael Brown’s is that the Staten Island killing can’t be called a racial incident.

6 comments:

  1. The inconvenient truth about Garner, no matter how wrong it seems that a man is dead for trying to make a buck illegally selling cigs one at a time, is that he did resist arrest over the dumb-ass NY law. A black female police sgt. was there at the arrest and obviously saw nothing wrong with what her officers were doing. You would think they have better things to do.

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    1. A black female police sgt. was there at the arrest and obviously saw nothing wrong with what her officers were doing.

      es, the supervisor.

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      You would think they have better things to do.

      Yup and no matter how you might fell otherwise, if you are courteous to cops, they will be courteous to you, at least that has been my experience throughout life.

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  2. Regardless of the victim's animosity toward the police (because of continued harassment) or the police's obvious animosity toward him bred of arrogance and belief of special privilege, the root cause of this crime lies with governmental and political arrogance, and their refusal to consider the existence of unintended consequences.

    In the process of building the progressive utopian disaster that is New York State and New York City they left has raised and raised and raised again the so-called sin taxes, particularly those on cigarettes. The reaction has been that some 60% of cigarettes are bootlegged in from other states. Rather than reducing the incentive for smuggling by lowering taxes, and thus potentially increasing derived revenues, the government chooses to increase enforcement by turning the local beat cop into a revenuer.

    However absurdly high the taxes may be on a pack of cigarettes may be, criminalizing the non-commercial sale of single cigarettes is a bureaucratic obscenity. But then I suppose in Mr. Garner had been selling single joints on the corner that would be considered far more politically correct and the cops would have turned a blind eye.

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    1. selling single joints on the corner that would be considered far more politically correct and the cops would have turned a blind eye.

      Excellent point.

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  3. "turning the local beat cop into a revenuer." Another excellent point and one I did
    not consider. I thought this killing was a travesty of justice and over-kill and God
    knows, I would never side with the likes of the NYC mayor, Holder, Obumma,
    Sharpton, etc.

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    1. Yes, but I can see, reading the piece, why the grand jury decided as they did.

      The grand jury was then left with the decision of whether Pantaleo had malicious intentions. It decided that he did not. Case closed.

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