DrTyore;387334 wroteYou may want to be more clear about that, because I'd bet the vast majority of people that don't have you on ignore wouldn't have read it that way.
Mark
From my post . . .
Not commenting on the specifics, because I have not read the deets on this one,
but one thing struck me in the linked article . . . it mentions that the victim was screaming, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe".
Sorry, but if you can talk, you ARE breathing.
That is all.
Then maybe that "vast majority" should read and think a little more closely before jumping to a conclusion . . .
I am hardly an apologist for the Cops (see Sammy Yatim thread), and I DO think that body cameras should be mandatory as a tool for monitoring police interactions with the public (and vice versa).
Having read a little bit about this particular case last night, it is pretty clear that the decision of the Grand Jury is a joke. Regardless of the method used in taking Garner to the ground to effect an arrest, the claim by the officer that he "got off the suspect as quickly as possible" is not supported by the video evidence. Whatever contribution Garner's health issues made to his fatal heart attack do not alter the contributions that the physical nature of his arrest made to that same event.
The ONLY way to determine the PRIMARY cause of that event would have been a trial, which the public are now denied. Ridiculous.