SpaceCadetboppetSpaceCadetYou should watch the whole video of this incident and not just the 10 second edit showing the takedown and choke hold. For at least 3-5 minutes ,prior to the physical stuff, the police were simply talking and giving instructions. The police were not being aggressive in any manner. This guy was getting more and more agitated as the seconds passed. When people act that way, it raises the tension level for everyone involved. He could snap and go for a weapon at any second.
Like I said before. If he was innocent (and he may well have been), then he should have taken them to court and got paid. At most, he would have been taken to the police station and detained for a few hours and let go. You can't fight or resist arrest on the spot, it is NEVER going to work and it has NOTHING to do with his skin color.
When the police have determined you have to be detained or arrested for whatever reason, they do not have to sit around and wait for you to decide when you want to be arrested. They have a job to do and it is dangerous and can cost a life in a moments notice. If you show resistance during the process, you are going to be forcefully detained. Go watch the whole video and face the facts, this guy resisted arrest.
Please stop with the hypothetical argument, just because someone is angry and agitated does not mean they are going to pull an invisible weapon out of thin air - Garner did not make any violent advances whatsoever.
If someone, even an officer, puts you in a chokehold, would you not do everything to get him off of you? Even if you make the argument of him resisting arrest, you can't account for the fact that the man repeatedly said that he could not breathe, (while having a banned chokehold on him) and having your head crushed into a sidewalk does not help the arrest. Even after he goes limp, the officers made no attempt to perform CPR or show no haste in calling medical assistance until too late.
After he is dead, they have the AUDACITY to talk to this man as if he was alive - telling his dead body "to help us so we can help you". The lady checked his pulse, who obviously at that moment realized he was dead.
Eric Garner NEVER attacked any of the officers and never showed a threat. He never touched any of the police officers. Even while Garner was being taken down, he still did NOT try to get away or attack any of the officers. He was never a threat was killed. The officer on the chokehold SHOULD HAVE in my opinion, pay for this. Even if he didn't mean to kill him, he made a wrong decision and there are consequences to that, such as manslaughter etc.
Also, do you know why people are so angry about these cases? It's because he wasn't even indicted. It's one thing to go to trial and be found not guilty. I'm sure people will be more open to that, (despite the anger it may still cause) But not being able to even ENTERTAIN THE IDEA that something wrong was done, they brush it off as a non-controversy.
Why should he have been indicted? The guy resisted arrest. What other course of action did he leave the police? Please tell me what the next step was for the police?
I am still waiting patiently for any of you to explain how this guy was NOT resisting arrest. He was told that he was being arrested/detained. He plainly said 2 times, Don't touch me in response. That is resisting arrest. Stop trying to act as if this guy did nothing wrong during the confrontation.
You have to be kidding or really, really, really dumb
-He should have been indicted because he used an illegal technique of excessive, lethal force to kill an unarmed, non-threatening person - hands up, then on the ground, and yelling "I can't breathe"
-There are so many other things that could have been done - handcuffs, pepper spray, baton, taser, or actually talking it out and explaining what the fuck is going on or not being a pig tryin to meet the quota
-No one is saying he should or should not have resisted arrest, but that Eric Garner did not pose enough of a threat to warrant lethal force - especially at the stage where he clearly verbally communicated that he could not breathe
You have to be braindead to actually think lethal force is the only course of option that could have possibly been taken. Seriously.