As described in one of my previous posts, from a legal standpoint, I could understand why Darren Wilson wasn't indicted for his killing of Michael Brown.
The fact that Daniel Pantaleo isn't being charged with manslaughter at the very least is a fucking insult to any notion of police accountability for misconduct.
Differences between this case and Ferguson make it even more outrageous.
1. Eric Garner didn't resist arrest.
2. Police officers have guns and are allowed to use them under certain circumstances. Police are NEVER allowed to detain suspects using a chokehold.
3. The coroner who examined Garner's body ruled his death a homicide
4. Eric Garner was selling bootleg cigarettes in a city that charges $14 a pack. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe tobacco bootlegging is under the jurisdiction of the ATF, ie the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Not the NYPD. If convicted, I'm fairly certain that not only is it a felony, but you have to repay whatever amount of money you are convicted of defrauding from the State via tax dollars.
5. IT WAS ON FUCKING VIDEO. THE WHOLE THING. GO WATCH IT.
We aren't ever going to know what REALLY happened in Ferguson. But we know what happened in Staten Island. And there is no justice.
If Eric Garner were white, there still wouldn't have been an indictment because Eric Garner wouldn't have been killed because police wouldn't have deemed the use of a chokehold "necessary force" against a white man.
#ACAB
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