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Re: No Indictment in Chokehold Death
You may want to hold off on that "chokehold" ban business. Apparently the Chief of Police Bratton, is backing away from it.
"Bratton also backtracked on his initial assessment that cellphone video showed Pantaleo applying a banned chokehold, telling CNN, “I’ve been around a long time in this business. What appears to be sometimes may not be what it is.”
Police fury at mayor’s racial smear | New York Post
And from the same article it states that "A judge granted Staten Island DA Dan Donovan’s request to unseal information about the grand jury proceedings, including that the panel heard from 50 witnesses, watched four videos and was told how much force cops can legally use in arrests."
The issue isn't whether there was a reason to detain him.
The issue is that the officers used excessive force, including a choke hold banned precisely to avoid this kind of outcome, to detain Garner; and that the officer was given a free pass by the criminal justice system.
Yet again, the cigarette law was merely coincidental to the situation. As I posted earlier, on Nov 22, a 20 year old man named Donovan Lawson illegally jumped a turnstile in the NYC subway. During the arrest, Donovan was beaten on the head with a baton by an arresting officer. Even if you believe that the officer's use of force on Donovan was fully justified, the fact still remains that the type or nature of the offense is not what results in an escalation of the use of force by the officers.
NYPD officer smashes alleged fare beater in head with baton - NY Daily News
You may want to hold off on that "chokehold" ban business. Apparently the Chief of Police Bratton, is backing away from it.
"Bratton also backtracked on his initial assessment that cellphone video showed Pantaleo applying a banned chokehold, telling CNN, “I’ve been around a long time in this business. What appears to be sometimes may not be what it is.”
Police fury at mayor’s racial smear | New York Post
And from the same article it states that "A judge granted Staten Island DA Dan Donovan’s request to unseal information about the grand jury proceedings, including that the panel heard from 50 witnesses, watched four videos and was told how much force cops can legally use in arrests."