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Grand Jury Fails To Indict White NYPD Cop; Protesters Block Roads, Tunnels In NYC, Multiple Arrests - Live Feed
Summing it all up in one photo...
It would appear NYPD has blacked out all webcams on the Westside Highway...
Literally nothing to see right now on the West Side Highway, please move on. pic.twitter.com/luIaidrWpS
— Barbarian Capital (@BarbarianCap) December 4, 2014
Live NY1 Coverage:
The politicians and 'leaders' have weighed in .@cbrangel on Garner decision: "This not a black problem. This is a problem we have in our great country." pic.twitter.com/d8go1o6cWA — CBSN (@CBSNLive) December 3, 2014 oh boy RT @JimDalrympleII: Sharpton is announcing a national march in Washington DC on Dec. 13. #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/oQDVubbMnx — Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) December 4, 2014 * * * And so has Eric Garner's widow... Eric Garner's widow on accepting condolences of NYPD officer: "Hell no" http://t.co/kxsACRy9Ys pic.twitter.com/7VyutEjdjz — CBS News (@CBSNews) December 4, 2014 * * * Poilice are preparing at Grand Central (430pm protest planned) Cops gearing up for potential #ericgarner protest at Grand Central. pic.twitter.com/97viu0BKZr — Ivan Pereira (@IvanPer4) December 3, 2014 4:30 protest at Grand Central 5:00 Garner family int Times Sq. 7:00 Rockfeller Christmas tree 7:30 Garners & Sharpon in Harlem #EricGarner — Justin Miller (@justinjm1) December 3, 2014 Die in at Grand Central Station happening right now. #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/fV9NmJeNAY — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) December 3, 2014 And protests are growing more active Demonstrators gather in Times Sq to protest Grand Jury decision not to indict cop over death of Eric Garner #NewYork pic.twitter.com/vwBVVoeEpX — Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) December 3, 2014
First wave of protesters have arrived at Rockefeller Center #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/cFGsbJOQO5
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) December 3, 2014
BREAKING - WEST SIDE HIGHWAY JUST FORCED CLOSED BY 1000 PROTESTERS AT 51 ST. http://t.co/xUsa7dnw8U #EricGarner #MikeBrown #Ferguson
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 4, 2014
West Side highway right now. Via @DanLinden pic.twitter.com/zgi95ZPCzn WATCH LIVE - http://t.co/34Kxumqv3R
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) December 4, 2014
NYPD making Brutal Arrests At 47th and 6th Ave. #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/qqNrjfQQnL
— Lnonblonde (@Lnonblonde) December 4, 2014
Protesters shut down West Side Highway at 49th. @ABC7NY #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/w8aeAD3y8i
— EverythingNYC (@EverythingNYC) December 4, 2014
Protestors on move, "shutem down, Christmas tree" #EricGarner heading for Rockefeller Center? pic.twitter.com/AlXtquDmGo
— Stephen Nessen (@s_nessen) December 3, 2014
The NYPD is cutting off train entrances, apparently in an attempt to prevent organized protests. #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/8TvYEFE6vx
— Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) December 3, 2014
Protests continue on the streets of New York City over the NYPD chokehold death of Eric Garner http://t.co/F3b7ZhMAXs pic.twitter.com/5uX8gOg4sm
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 4, 2014
Loving my City @JohnGGalt: BREAKING PHOTO: Lincoln Tunnel shut down #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/MXwB9oSC6n”
— BEYNCEcallmeDVA (@BEYNCEcallmeDVA) December 4, 2014
And arrests made in St.Louis after courthouse barricades torn down...
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Cuomo Statement
JUST IN: Andrew Cuomo statement on #EricGarner pic.twitter.com/8CskjcNncY
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 3, 2014
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A Staten Island grand jury has decided not to indict white NYPD officer Daniel Panateleo, according to NY1, who allegedly used a banned chokehold and killed Eric Garner, a 400lb black man, who was stopped on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes. Eric Garner's son has called for peace and hopes there is no Ferguson-like response...
This is the racial makeup of the #grandjury that declined to indict in the #EricGarner case pic.twitter.com/CAzTWAgoSG
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) December 4, 2014
Eric Garner:
Daniel Panteleo:
The scene...
The decision...
JUST IN: Cop cleared in Eric Garner chokehold death http://t.co/NJEQ568CEX pic.twitter.com/hoIjgQm49o
— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) December 3, 2014
A New York City grand jury has decided not to indict the New York Police Department officer accused of killing a Staten Island man by putting him in an illegal chokehold. The NYPD is now preparing for more protests stemming from the decision.
Early Wednesday afternoon, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post all reported that a grand jury declined to indict the officer.
Although the special grand jury declined to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer accused of strangling Garner, who was black, the police department can still reprimand Pantaleo under a basic rule that loosely states if an officer does anything to embarrass the department, then they can be disciplined.
"It's sad if they take that position," Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, told Staten Island Live. "I'd be surprised and a bit disappointed if he was used as a political pawn to appease the community."
The incident occurred on July 17, when at least five New York Police Department officers took 43-year-old Eric Garner, a Staten Island father of six, to the ground in an attempted arrest on Staten Island. One put Garner in a chokehold that caused Garner – who suffered from asthma – to lose consciousness and reportedly go into cardiac arrest. He was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
The Staten Island District Attorney’s Office convened the grand jury in September, but did not announced the list of potential charges against Pantaleo. But prosecutors outside the district told ABC News that the range could have included second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, felony assault or reckless endangerment. Legal experts and former prosecutors had said that, despite the medical examiner’s ruling the death a homicide, murder charges were unlikely, the New York Times reported.
Garner's son...
“It’s not going to be a Ferguson-like protest because I think everybody knows my father wasn’t a violent man and they’re going to respect his memory by remaining peaceful,” Snipes said. “It’s not going to be like it was there.”
Let's hope so...
Police in New York City began preparing for potential protests before the grand jury decision was announced.
"We, as you might expect, are planning accordingly," New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a news conference on Tuesday.
Bratton did not reveal how many officers were placed out on the streets ahead of the announcement, but he said that officers have been told to walk a fine line between allowing the protesters to express their anger while keeping public order.
If they engage in criminal activity, such as vandalism ? actual crime ? they will be arrested, quite simply," he said. "But we have the ability to have a level of tolerance ? breathing room, if you will."
There are at least two different demonstrations planned in lower Manhattan Wednesday, including appearances of Parents Against Police Brutality and protesters who say they are taking a stand against "the criminalization of our communities and militarization of the local enforcement agencies," ABC News reported.
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It's not murder, nor even a crime, because we have allowed the laws to be written so that almost nothing a police officer does is a crime. Tidy, huh? In Nazi Germany, they stripped the Jews and the rest of their victims (Gays, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, whatever) of citizenship, then they restricted all rights to citizens. Hey, Presto! Nothing they did to anyone else was a crime in any way.
So now the police can kill anyone for any reason, and steal whatever they want to. And it's not a crime, because they laws are written that way.
People talk about backlash against the 1960s and Civil Rights. Hah. We've repealed the fucking Magna Carta in America.
time for a new social contract.
the current one is worthless.
Fascinating you'd use the phrase "Social Contract." I've recently read far-right commentary condemning the very idea of a "Social Contract," attempting to conflate that concept with the Welfare State. It's all part of the ongoing campaign to drain the meaning out of the vocabulary we use to discuss issues. Once the words have been rendered meaningless, conversation, much less dissent, becomes impossible to communicate. A list of now-meaningless words (by no means complete) would have to include: "Liberal," "Conservative," "Terrorist," "Accountability," "Lawful," and I could go on and on and on.
Once the concept of a social contract has been discredited, it's all over. Might makes right.
fascinating? ;-)
Don't choke! It's just a smoke!
A fascist police state. Government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.
This is what the right wing wanted for decades. Now, we've got it. I guess you have to be careful for what you wish, huh?
Truth: It hurts sometimes.
It isn't the right that wanted it. It is the 12 families and they have had it for some time now.
How would you describe their politics, and the politics of those who support them, do their bidding, and think they will be protected by them?
Ooooh. Good questions. You and I know the answers.
In this day and age of America, it's almost an unfair trick question. I mean, every day on this site I read about Obama The Leftist, Socialist, Communist, Fascist who wants Sharia imposed.
Now, if you want an anti-Obama rant, I'm your man. But a Leftist of any stripe he is most certainly not. He's a cautious center-right politician, completely owned and operated by the Finance industry and the Military/Security/Industrial complex.
I've learned to filter out the misuse of terminology, at least when the original post includes enough context to understand what it means. In textbook terms, America has moved so far to the Right in the past 35 years it's not the same place anymore. During the Viet Nam War, for instance, the anti-war protesters were most definitely Left. And the pro-war, pro-government, pro-law-and-order types were most definitely, and proudly, Right. It's only been since the full impact of Nixon's Southern Strategy has come into evidence that we see the Right claiming to be anti-Government. Which they of course are not, when one considers that police and military are very much instruments of Government.
Leftists in America? Maybe a couple in campus coffeeshops. That's about it.
We need a whole new lexicon in America, with which to discuss politics. Since our system has become unipolar, with two competing factions of the same power Elites, our old vocabulary has become meaningless. That's not unintentional at all. When people use words to refer to things other than what they mean, eventually communication becomes impossible. Once that happens, dissent cannot take root among more than one person at a time. That serves some powerful interests; interests powerful enough to employ whole armies of agenda-setter to further debase and debauch our vocabulary and eliminate our ability to put names to the things we see, and possibly to oppose them.
solving the question of 'public versus private' is kind of like an existential gordian knot. how much should be private? how much should be public/commons? whatever the answer to that question, it's sad to see homeless persecuted by police, or bus benches with huge 'lumps' built into them so no one can sleep there. what i'm saying is that there has to be a way of providing a 'floor' for people, without taking away their 'ceiling'. as it is, it seems like people near or on 'the floor' just get plain trampled. i'm all for amassing fame/fortune, but would it be too terribly difficult for a society to at least give each of the 'riff raff' a shipping container to live in, and some kind of shared bathroom facilities? as it is, our society as an organization seems unduly cruel/callous at times. one thing's for sure: when called to jury duty i'm not going to convict anyone of anything. if we don't do anything to the 'big criminals', why punish any of the 'small' ones?
we talk about 'privatization' as being a good thing, but the way it actually seems to work is that the connected get everything which was previously commons, on the cheap. the soviet union found this out, so did other countries such as hungary. it's happening today in the usa. also, 'government-owned land' should actually be open to the public.
where do we draw the line between private and public? how did the concept of 'eternal debt' come into being? why does anybody owe anyone else anything in the first place?
I was transiting through NYC and in the Port Authority bus station sitting down eating. A cop comes up to me to tell me to move it along. WTF is wrong with these people - it's a BUS STATION - obviously there are going to be itinerant people loitering in a bus station. FULL-RETARD
Thank you for writing this. There needs to be a frank and clear discussion about this misue of terminology. I consider myself to be a libertarian socialist (which may freak some people out), but the term simply means that I'm a libertarian and in my own community outside of the state structure, I would prefer there to be communal support for people in that community (you might run your family like that, for example). It also means that I prefer a lot of small independent shops and I am against large corporate shops with too much power in a given community. Fair play for all, but we must support each other - though not through mandate by any government.
All that being said - Obama is not a leftist. He isn't even a socialist or a communist. Hell, I think that most socialist and communists would stand at the barricades with people on this website against the government. Sure, they may have a different idea of an end-game (yes state-controlled anything is BAD news), but at the point they are anti-fascist, they should be considered allies. Just because Obama is in favor of centralized massive government control with a degradation of rights for individuals (fascism) doesn't mean that he and is ilk are communist simply because other people who called themselves communist (Stalin and Mao come to mind) were also egocentric fascists who wanted the state to control everything.
Everytime I hear these rants against Obama and communism, I get really upset because it is a distraction. This is not a fight between communism and freedom - it is a fight between fascism and freedom. Communists are also anti-fascist (though just as "democracies", "communist" governments often have fallen in to fascism). The influence of dumbass leftist professors, for example, make people think Obama is a communist with some big plot related to communism - he's not - he's just a fascist and these so-called communist professors aren't communist, they're control freaks who are often obsessed about race/identity. The people who we're told influence Obama have dumb ideas that instead of challenging fascism, merely push it (for example the Weather Underground "brush fires" theory - this is just rich-kid theoretical rebellion, not a plan for transforming and strenghthening society). The repubs as far as I can tell also present nothing that challenges the control-freak fascist trajectory of the country. If you don't believe that then wait 12 years and watch elections go by and false hopes for "the other party" come and go in cycle.
I think the term "anti-fascist" is perhaps one of the best ways to bring together the relevant coalitions to bring change in this country. A lot of us here are outraged by this killing by cops - you notice our outrage has nothing to do with some blah blah theory about race relations or identity politics - it has to do with being sick of control freaks and a government that works against its people, not for its people. This is one of the biggest complaints I have with AJ's anti-communist rants. You might be surprised that a lot of communists or socialists are working class people that just want an equal playing field against the corporate-governmental mafia - the professors and trendies who babble on about race and identity, invoking white privilege and this nonesense, these are people are just "liberals" and not in the sense of our founding fathers, but in the sense that they can hide under any definitional fork in a dichotomy to work feeble minds on the two-party reach-around.
IS OFFICER WAYNE BRADY GOING TO HAVE TO CHOKE SOME LOOSE CIGARETTE SELLIN BITCH?
Oh and the whole white cop/black victim angle needs to just stop. There are many cases of non-violent/non-threatening/unarmed white people being killed by cops so the media (that includes you ZH) needs to quit trying to make it seem like only white cops kill black people and racebait. If this guy had been white then he'd have surely been put in the same choke hold and died and the cop still wouldn't have got in trouble.
This incident is simply wrong and the guy could have been purple and the cop green and it doesn't change. This vitim's family got no justice and I do commend his son asking for peace as he could have easily got very emotional and called for "burning the bitch down" like that idiot father of Mike Brown and IMO been justified for it. Ridiculous this cop is most likley not going to get any punishment for this bullshit. Fucking pigs...and that Ed Mullins moron can go fuck himself for that BS comment.
THIS one is worthy of a protest. What's next in NYC killing hot dog venders? Fuck, look at that dude over there selling Sbarro pizza, call the cops.
Protests accomplish nothing.
I am white and I am going to fucking riot over this. The dude says that he cannot breath. Why the white cop is not on trial for murder is beyond me. Have fun burning NYC, you deserve it!
can't breathe? That's lying, you can't talk without breathing. /sarc off.
Yeah, he lied to a cop!
In Detroit Steven Utash, 54, of Clinton Township, Michigan, accidentally struck a 10-year-old boy who was playing chicken with his car on a main street in Detroit on April 2, 2014. Utash got out of the car to help the child. At that point four men jumped Utash then proceeded to punch and kick him in a vicious attack that led to Utash going unconsciousness. Utash would have been killed unless an elderly woman, a former nurse, rushed to his defense and threw herself over Utash as she screamed at the men to stop.
The child Utash struck with his car was treated for a broken leg and fully recovered. The four men who jumped Utash are now charged with attempted murder. Also 16-year-old boy is charged with assault and ethnic intimidation. Utash is white, his attackers are black. Utash survived and was in a coma for two weeks following the incident. This story was skipped over by the liberal media scum.
I drove the same route Utash did for 30 years before I retired. It could easily have been me lying on that pavement unconsciousness. But you did not hear me scream burn Detroit down, you deserve it..
Criminally negligent manslaughter maybe.
When it comes to burning that bitch to the ground, please, pretty please, think of Goldman Sachs HQ.
Just make sure to target those responsible. Unless it's Goldman Sachs, please be respectful of private property.
One can't hold their psychopath employes accountable, when they are actually employed to rob, and generate cage fodder for you and the PIC (Prison-Industrial-Complex).
That would be bad for morale and "productivity."
An American, not US subject.
Since ultimately the gun and badge thugs work for, byway of the local tax districts indebtedness, the banksters, the best way to think about the killing of Eric Garner is as a revenue extraction gone bad.
And they will still get 1 million from his life insurance policy. So either way its fine. They no longer have to worry about future revenue from you. Now, as we head into bankruptcy, they will just liquidate on the insurance policy, the same one they have on all of us. Plan to see much more of this in the near future. Also, check you tail lights.
So what does it take for a black on white assault/murder to be assigned "racially motivated"?
A cop doing his job facing assault and possible death with the assailant resisting arrest is always accused of racially motivated reasons for stopping or arrests,in the case below, curiously not gaining much attention in the anti white media -the victim was white after all -the victim was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by two blacks and a mexican in St. Louis, but not considered a racially motivated crime by the mayor?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2855535/St-Louis-teens-beat-moto...
It becomes racially motivated when someone is trying to distract you from the real problem.
He must have happened to choose the particular moment to die when the cop had his hands around his neck. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!
Cops are animals. Treat them you would an uncaged bear or lion. Calm. Don't run. Don't look them in the eyes. Avoid at all costs.
Two systems of justice right now. It has nothing to do with race. It's government thug versus everyone else. Race is just being used to blind morons.
He should of been wearing his new videocam gear.
/All kidding aside.
If that is how police behave in NYC, it seems to me that shooting a cop would be pre-emptive self defence.
Between this grand jury's judgement, the court rulings in favor of Gestapo no-knock warrants, the SCOTUS call on Preezycare, and the weird behavior of politicians like Boner, I cant help but think the fix is in.
This is worthy of a nationwide riot... holy fucking shit...
At what point do people just start hunting these cop dogs and their families down? You know what would get cops to run from duty during some kind of event - hunting down their famiies while they're at work that's what.
I'm fucking sick of this shit and so is the rest of the 99.9% getting fucked over every god damn day by out of control police whose fucking salaries and pensions we fucking pay for!
For me personally this anger towards them really started with Bundy's Ranch - the cops in this country are out of fucking control and the Patriots who stood their ground at that Ranch set the example: stand your ground and don't shoot unless you really have to.
The truth here is someone was MURDERED for AVOIDING a $5 TAX! Is that enough to start shooting back?
Would Cops start to think twice about killing people if the actual response, instead of worthless rioting/protesting, was to find out where this guy lives and kill every member of his family infront of him before you blow his fucking head off?
Perhaps we're finally reaching the point where shit like that is going to need to happen to restore sanity to this fucking mess.
For the record I have never in my life advocated violence, and consider myself to be a pacifist, PLUS to be clear here i'm not advocating someone go kill him and his family for what he did but what i am saying is that we need to start to asking ourselves what is the situation when its's time to start advocating vioience as a response? Where is our line as a society? If this isn't it then what the fuck is?
Welcome to "Hunger Games"
A pack of Newports left this guy choked up. Lost tax revenue for the city of New York.
Calm down, this is NOT worthy of rioting. Put some pressure on your legislators. They're still human (?) and do respond to pressure at times. They need more pressure.
When was the last time you saw activism changing anything? Did it stop the Iraq war? (any war?) Did it stop wall street? The banks? Has it had any effect at all on police tactics? Global warming (LOL)?
See I can't really think of much where TPTB don't just go right ahead and push through whatever agenda they want anyway regardless of their voters or of activists/protestors.
Wait? Got a billion dollars? You can buy the change you want of course. The only other incident I can think of recently where there was real change is Ukraine where the protests became riots and the police and and guard were fire bombed and the existing government was violently removed.
So there you go. You want change? Money or violence.
...you do know the current "government" there was installed via illegal coup, right?
Sarc? I was on the side of the "law" on Ferguson, but not on this one. Burn the shit down?
Can we apply that pressure in the form of an illegal chokehold?
When pacifists get this worked up you know things are bad.
I myself dabbled with pacifism at one point. Not in 'Nam, of course.
Damitt Burger, he was fragil
SilverIsMoney -
u r damn fucking right...
Kudos Silver, the movement of folks that feel the way you do is silently growing like a rumbling volcano. One day the top is going to blow then the pyroclastic flow of angry citizens will be felt through all levels of .gov.
Let's hope it's sooner rather than later because one more false flag and I suspect all of us paying attention will be rounded up and relocated.
If you like your brown shirts......
These "police" are trained as first responders, for medical emergencies. They've been trained to put this unconscious and unresponsive man in rescue position, check his airway and begin CPR. He was left on the street, in handcuffs, to die like a stray dog. Who was calling for paramedics? It appeared that they were more concerned of blocking witnesses and videos of this appaulling treatment of an American. I'm a conservative pro-emergency police and fire, but if they can't clean up their acts, there will be no respect or trust left and we will have chaos.
The perp needs to meet justice for this. Regulators!
I've had conversations with my American cousins about the militarization of their civilian police force since the days of Compuserve and I hate doing it, because it is so frustrating to talk to an American about this issue. First, as it has been pointed out numerous times, it is none of my bloody business how another country conducts its affairs and second, violence particularly gun violence is much more prevalent in the USA than it is in the UK.
Despite my reluctance, I have to point out two things, because it is slowly creeping its way over here too. So it is as much for us in the UK as it is for the US.
1) There is a very dangerous and divisive accepted culture in the US LEO community about how they treat members of the public. The American police often refer to the public as "Civilians", as if they are completely separate like the military. Nobody points out the obvious fact that the police force is a civilian organization! As any seasoned investigator will tell you, the police rely on their community to solve crimes and when the trust is broken between them, there can only be one section of the community that benefits: The criminals.
2) I don't know how it works in the US, but over here the newly recruited police are granted special powers of arrest by a Magistrate, a court of law, in the form of a warrant card. It is not given by the police force itself to new members. The police unions, academies, and the organization itself can publish as many "Procedures" governing an officer's work as much as they like, but none of them have any legal foundation. In fact, many contravene the laws that protect the public from abuse of police powers, and should not be taught to officers in the first place. When they are allowed to write their own rules as they often do these days about procedures and the weapons they carry, all they will protect are themselves, not the public, which invalidates the purpose for which they were created.
The police force is just another organization which has become lawless, able to wield their power through fear and violence. Most of us think it's great when this is directed at criminals, but when the police can commit crimes without any fear of the consequences because they believe they are "exceptional" (They are actually often told they are exceptional) and not part of the community they serve, it is no surprise that they become rotten to the core. It should be obvious to even the most casual observer, that the system of justice from top to bottom has become rotten and that the only things stopping the public from getting rid of them all together are tradition and fear of even worse criminals than the police. This shouldn't be happening.
I once wrote that if you give an ordinary man the clothing and equipment that resembles a fascist, that is precisely what he will emulate.
No argument from this American.
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Eric Garner.’
What were the charges recomended by the NY DA?
Well I want there to hear what wa recommended, but I can damn sure bet the prick told the grand jury that he was confident there was not enough evidence to convict so no charges should be brought. After all, he's in the same club as the pigs, right?
A lot of talk and complaints, but no one is deciding to stop obeying the law of the land and the government which enforces it. Silly threats of violence by people who will never choose to commit it.
The problem is not race, cops, prosecutors, judges or politicians. The problem is the State. If you want to live in liberty and personal responsibility, your FIRST action is to stop giving control over your life to psychopaths. All governments are psycho. Get rid of government and get rid of the psycho.
There is no promise so dear from a psycho which will ever be as valuable as the liberty you surrender or destructive as the enslavement you take on.
More like avoidance. We are trapped in the system and the system is the process of cannabalizing itself (imploding).
But, in the context of TPTB, avoidance is disobedience as well. Semantics on the surface - particularly when the psycopaths see us as property - tax mules - peasants - etc. Tactics is what might be considered the differentiating characteristic.
Q: How many cops does it take to push a 400lb black man down a flight of stairs?
A: None. He tripped.
yeah excessive force for sure. No reason for the chokehold.
When did the Beastie Boys become cops. Their's your problem!
Everyone needs to understand the actual job of a police officer. The #1 job is to bring in people who could plausibly be charged by the DA. Beyond that, the police have some responsibility to maintain orderly flow of traffic, and they have a lot of paperwork obligations. That's it. They have no responsibility to protect anyone other than themselves. In fact, their statement that they felt threatened routinely excuses them for any and all of their actions.
There's an enormous industry built up around this activity. Think of all the cops, judges, bailiffs, jailers, lawyers, social workers, bureaucrats, media and PR types, politicians, psychiatrists, pharmaceuticals salesmen etc. who would be out of work without this industry. A person is arrested for some trivial matter. The person for one reason or another doesn't appear in court. Now they have two raps. Or they do appear in court, but can't or don't pay the fine. Not paying the fine for a minor offense is more serious than the offense itself. The police mostly round up people they perceive to be screwups in the first place, and they're pretty good at picking screwups out of a crowd. Once these people are "in the system," they are as hooked up to the revenue and human-energy extraction system as the people in "The Matrix" movies, existing only as a biological source of energy fueling the system that controls them.
When you think of it in that way, it comes a lot more clear. It's nothing new. People have lived under armed occupation since the dawn of civilization. One either tolerates it, or is willing to be killed. From time to time, a group of people rise up, and lots of them are killed.
I agree, but you have one part wrong. The police do have an obligation:
To protect and serve the governmental body that employs them.
Police "swear an oath" to that effect.
But they do tend to leave that last part out of the recruiting propaganda.
Apparently the NYPD has a Street Judge working for them. (judge dredd reference)
The members of the Grand Jury fear the police.
The police and prosecutor know their names and addresses. If they move against the COP (state), there will be consequences.
1984 is here my friends. TPTB are sending a message: the police will do as they please. Waste not your time questioning their actions. Embrace the boot on your face.
In Detroit Steven Utash, 54, of Clinton Township, Michigan, accidentally struck a 10-year-old boy who was playing chicken with his car on a main street in Detroit on April 2, 2014. Utash got out of the car to help the child. At that point four men jumped Utash then proceeded to punch and kick him in a vicious attack that led to Utash going unconsciousness. Utash would have been killed unless an elderly woman, a former nurse, rushed to his defense and threw herself over Utash as she screamed at the men to stop.
The child Utash struck with his car was treated for a broken leg and fully recovered. The four men who jumped Utash are now charged with attempted murder. Also 16-year-old boy is charged with assault and ethnic intimidation. Utash is white, his attackers are black. Utash survived and was in a coma for two weeks following the incident.
I drove the same route Utash did for 30 years before I retired. It could easily have been me lying on that pavement unconsciousness. But you did not hear me scream burn Detroit down, you deserve it or try to start a riot. Yes, I was mad. But I let the system work.
This story was skipped over by the liberal media scum who cherry pick stories and whip up the flames of public discontent for only their cause…
My My Rabbit, just because one thing went right we should all just ignore it when the other 99 go terribly wrong? Those pigs wuz just havin a little fun right?
May your chains lie lightly upon you.
Eric Garner murderers walk - Youtube Rant on Police brutality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3P2fTS3EJA
Daniel Panteleo looks like a third string NFL (National Fag League) seat warmer who made a rookie mistake.
He looks more like an inbred Min Pin to me. And he's probably stupider than one.
I got a pro-active idea.
Craete a club of numerous citizens, ethnic, income, etc.
Have them visit the PD once a week or month and bring food to the cops. While they are eating, you drop in that they are not behaving well.
Make them human. Don't cut them out.
Don't stay on Defense when you can take the Offense.
Do you think licking their boots would be a good idea too?
COPs are raping women, yo!
Ferguson is one thing... I've seen this video more than once and it clearly shows cops harassing him for selling loose cigs and using it as an excuse to give him the beat-down... and "accidentally killing him." Of course it starts with abuse of power at the top and filters down to "cops who can do no wrong even when they commit murder" because those at the top "need immoral cops to defend them when the SHTF"... and it will hit the fan economically. First the rich/influential like Corzine are immune from prosecution, now it's the cops who enjoy it as well. Video and facts mean nothing anymore... the Supreme Court pretends to adhere to law, but it is also an arm of the rich/corrupt. The only question in my mind is how many more instances will it take before people (99%) start pushing back against the corruption and favoritism the rule makers mandate for themselves? The double standard being put in place for the Corzine cops and inversly the 99% won't fly forever. My guess is that we are nearing a crucial flash point when the masses get tired of the 1%, their system, their media, their cops, their fiat, etc., and push back... it won't be pretty I'm betting... it will be very very messy.
Boy, those grand juries must pay extreamly well.
But just like other riots, the morons will burn down and loot their neighbors homes and businesses rather than the places of business of those they have a beef with.
And Garners son is a real treat. Wonder how much he was paid...
This man, once the police puts a hand on him, is being taken into custody and therefore at that moment the police are completely responsible for his care. They should be fully charged with the negligent behavior that resulted in his death.
Brown, conversely, put his hands on the cop.
Pay taxes or DIE!!!
- your local public servant
This incident makes much more sense that the fake Ferguson racist fraud because this innocent guy was not trying to play the knockout game on an armed cop and you can see how the cops enjoyed escalating with a peaceful guy until they ended up killing him for no reason.
What took so long for this protest? Focus should be on protesting militarized cops, not fake racism protests. This also sets up an interesting dynamic because NYC is liberal mecca. They can do no wrong, including random stop and frisk of blacks, which would cause an national crusade against racism if the same thing, or much lesser, were happening in Macon County, Georgia.
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Now, the leaders will have to actually use some candor in their response, because they really don't care about the black guy dead.....but that it looks "bad on the city. The bondholders won't like this".
Agreed. This a Fascism issue and the loss of a Constitutional Republic.
I don't know about this one. We all saw the video and it seems that once the man went down to the ground the choke hold should have been released. The man, though very big, showed no sign of violence, only resisting arrest. I wonder if the grand jury was permitted to see the tape.
I certainly hope so. Whats the point of cops wearing Obama cameras in the near future if the video evidence is disallowed. What a fucked up country.
They let the chokehold cop free....it's almost deliberately antagonistic. Makes you wonder if the economy is ready for a "correction" soon.
DJIA and S&P hit all time highs today. All that matters to those in charge.
After they have those classes in (the infliction of) Death; they become the Death Class.
That's why tax payers are forking over travel expenses to Israel, so that these idiots learn to treat Americans as though they are Palestinians. All citizens are domestic enemies to these jokers.
A uniformed Dallas Police Officer was recently fired (and charged) for using excessive force. You can see his arrest of a homeless man here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpRuyqVuz7U
This was the result:
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/crime/2014/11/24/dallas-police-officer-fi...
excerpt:
November 24, 2014
DALLAS – The Dallas Police Department fired Officer Jesus Martinez Monday afternoon and then charged him with official oppression, a Class A misdemeanor, for using excessive force against a panhandler.
That's not a choke hold the officer has him in. The cops forearm is across the victims airway, it's a strangle hold when you cut off the "wind pipe". Death will be from "heart failure" the heart tends to stop beating not long after you stop breathing. One of the reasons choke holds are too dangerous to use is because idiots don't do it correctly and squeeze the airway shut instead of compressing the lateral arteries of the neck while keeping the airway open so the suspect or victim in this case can continue to breathe. A correctly applied choke hold causes a tempory loss of conciousness from restricted blood flow to the brain. The cop could have caused enough damage to the man's airway with his strangle hold that subsquent swelling would cause the victims airway to close up by itself after the cop removed his arm from the man's neck. About the only way to save the victim's life after his airway has swollen shut is with rapid intubation.
This what happens when you call the Cops : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc
All one has to observe is the look on the chock holders face.
Protest!...Start taking these "folks" (CRIMINL police) out ONE by ONE!!
when they least expect it
I thought the chokehold didn't kill him... he had a siezure and/or heart attack later... an obese guy that refused to submit... after his illegal activity, no matter how minor... not that it matters to racist gorillas like Sharpton... did the autopsy show the advanced stage of heart disease and high blood pressure damage? I know Holder wants to suspend the rule of law for all black people... does that sound smart?
THis grand Jury is clearly NOT a jury of your peers. I'm sick of all this non constitutional creep into the way the consistution was written, and the peoples rights, and the governments powers, flowing from the consitution. laws should be constitutional or they are NOT laws. A jury of this dead mans peers would have seen manslaughter at least because choking is a life threatening move. Dead man would have fought for his life but did not because killer was a cop. Had he not been a cop any of us would have fought on and that might have cleared the airway, but at least you die fighting. Here you die hoping they will stop choking you before you blackout.
I wasn't aware this was in Staten Island. Given that the panel was more whites, it is not surprising then...perhaps in Manhattan it might have been different.
This is why I don't donate to law enforcement charities anymore.
The police can choke a man to death on suspension of selling loose cigarettes for one fucking dollar.
Not one bankster even prosecuted over trillions of daily global fraud schemes.
Seriously. How can anyone with a badge, gun or the authority to charge people with crimes look themselves in the mirror and think they are a legitimate or fair force in society?
I know policing is hard work, but on what level where these events even justified?
The emerging element for 2015 will be the fact that in some jurisdiction cops kill more people than criminal organization.
How is this different than those 43 Mexican students tortured and murdered in Ayotzinapa Mexico?
MSNBC and CNN just cut away from the President babbling on as they realize he is all talk and task force assigner in chief.
these dirty fucking pigs should have their necks crushed till they can't breath. they are so fucking animilistic in nature and are just power hungry whores of the system. i will never stop and help a cop that is in distress as the chances are they are evil little fuckers. hope they all get ebola and die. i have had enough of them steeling money, killing innocent people, raping our women and terrorizing our people. they deserve the same consequences that they deliver to us. shoot an innocent person then u should be shot. simple eye for an eye would suffice. any cops reading this? if so go suck a dick :)
I recall when young, a motorcycle cop served to miss a deer and went over. I helped him. Now, I'd only laugh and guide the buzzards in. . .
BURN THE NY FED BITCHEZ!
That cop is way too cute...He's gonna be reaaaaaaly popular in the penitentiary.....
If that cop is smart he is already on a slow boat back to the old country.
who pulls these jurors together, the city which in turn works with/for the pigs? how can u justify using a choke hold that is not allowed and kill someone and they can't indict this fucker? what a poluted fucking police state we have. might as well have emperor obuma start the rifd chips in our foreheads now and get it over with. i hope the city of ny gets even one way or another
It's not about putting together the jurors, it's about controlling a process that is a fraud to its very core:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/28/the-secret-darkness-of-grand-juries/
just sick.... "i can't breathe... I CAN"T BREATHE" No maranda rights, no alegations to arrest... The Mike Brown thing was pretty clear as political BS. But this is what people should be up in arms about. My guess is very little coverage hitting the media. Peaceful protest is bore in this corp news cycle.
The charge? loose cigarettes?? $5 NY cigarette tax..
-That's All Folks-
Look Ladies and Gentleman,
There are two kinds of Law. The first kind calls you to schedule an interview, and then formally asks you to turn yourself in within the next week. When/If you do then you get taken to a minimum security resort whereby you have the option of tossing someone's salad.
The second kind is FUCK YOU LAW. Whereby they bust into your house house without notice or provocation and throw a flash grenade at your mother and then shoot the dog who was sleeping in the living a moment before. Then you go to Maximum security jail under trumped up charges so that the jail can meet it's quota and pay all of its bills.
I have a power point presentation if you want....;)
Put the fear of the "grave" on these CRIMINALS minds...
It's not just an "black" thing
This guy is damn lucky he wasn't sellig "Big Gulps" they woulda tasered, maced, beat and then choked him out..
granted he was a big guy, but 4-5 cops and the nazi choke hold??? !!! for selling loose ciggys in this economy ??? !!!
take away all the nazi toys from the nazi cops! no more night vision, no more AR's, no more!
hannity will be sayin "ya but he wasn't shot in the back, the forensic evidence doesn't lie!..."
When you see how much a pack costs in NYC, now you know they are snuffin' out competitors...
What I said to the wife, this man was killed to intimidate all others who are thinking of not supporting police pensions by paying sin taxes. This was tax collection run amok... We are worried about racism when we should be worried about the foundations of a police state rising up around us ( black,white, yellow) every day.
this is clearly not about race. this just plain old institutional abuse of power by the state.
i hope all you white people realize you are next. you can see the beginnings of it with all the dog shootings. it has escalated from there a bit but will accelerate.
what was that little ditty?...first they came for who?.....
Exactly. But since not everyone will know the reference:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
As ever, united we'll stand or divided we'll fall.
and...
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Ben Franklin.
that whole Nazi thing is overstated --too much war propaganda as victors (trhe Jews) write history. Real Nazis run much of the world today -and they're not german.
They cloned Martin Bormann, who lives in Bueno Aires. We will be visiting over Christmas, all of his gteat-grand children.
His clone is absolutely benevolent.
His clone remembers nothing of the war. He is just a regular guy, managing billions of assets smuggled during the war. Hitler was a patsy for the Bank of International Settlement.
I met a dealer that has pristine relics from the early days before the night of the long knives. I am going to appraise and find a.....not Jewish...fine auction.
Strictly dealing with trusted dealers who never deal with the tribe.
I hope to make a bundle.
Er, I cheered when they came for the jews. Then I woke up and realised it was just a dream and no-one was coming for those evil psychopath filth after all. And let's not be so hard on the nazis all the time because they lost both wars and the 66 world cup. Like the Talmud says, we should look for the good in everyone (apart from the goyim half-animal shells without a spark of soul), that's a win-win I'm okay, you're okay etc etc. So, I'll start by reminind everyone that the nazis definitely had the nicest uniforms and coolest kit, what's not to love above leather peaked caps and SS daggers? Hmmm, donuts... they're so versatile.
They already do if you live in certain areas.
I'm white and had to deal with asshole cops as a yoot.
The good ones are silenced and the bad ones defended in a lot of places.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2014/10/03/weekley-...
.... No comment needed.
"What's the problem?"
"This guy told me to leave him alone."
"Well, this will be the last time he does that."
And it was.
Fuck cops. Three place I avoid: hospitals, funeral homes and courtrooms. I used to think I avoided them because bad things happen there, people are dead or dying, people put on trial.
Recently, I think I've avoided them because cops are around.
Never liked cops. Like them even less now.
Don't thin there will be an uprising; America is too tame for that kind of thing. What is more likely is people just avoiding the system, opting out, until there's no system left. Cops fucking with teachers, like they did to Eric Garner, now that would be a good start.
Firemen are also egotistical fuck-asses, too. Can't fucking stand those glorified steroid chicken-fuckers. TV glorifies them. Turn off the fucking tube, America. You're being fed bullshit and most of you love the taste.
Thinking that after I escape from suburbia later this month, I'll probably have two good years in a rural area, then have to leave for some place like Uruguay, Pago-Pago or Patagonia. Someplace far away...
Obama's been having a lot of sons lately.
Whatever your race, if you are not afraid of the USA's uniformed brutality mafia, then you are a naive fool.
Race has always been used as a weapon by the elite for centuries,
to disorganize the mass public when they are focused on a clear objective against them. Its interesting to see how they turn on themselves so easily in the past and today is not different.
If something must be burned down, head over to Verizon Center and fry that place. That's the home of my hockey team (Washington Crapitals) and they flat out suck!
The CAPs don't play defense so you should have no trouble getting things lit off. Good luck and thanks.
If you run in to A. Ovechkin, would you mind knocking out a few of his remaining teeth. Maybe he'll learn how to play D.
He broke the law. He resisted arrest. The cops did their job. It doesn't matter that he was black, the cops would have done the same to any bid dude who resisted. Another wise decision by a grand jury.
And why is the mayor inciting riots in his own city?
Did the cop break the law when he strangled him to death? And to expect someone not to resist when they're being strangled is beyond asinine. I can't stand you cop and government ass worshippers.
He resisted before the cop took him down. And it all could have been avoided if he 1) wasn't breaking the law and 2) realized he was busted and just chalked it up to another day at the office. It would have just been one more item on his long arrest record, he would have been back on the street in 2 hours.
Same situation happens in front of me in my state, I put a bullet in the cops head, no questions asked.
Shame on you, you're as low and unworthy as you claim the "others" are, so you are just another bag of dirt on the Internet.
Save your time for something important, motherfucker. If you want to fellate the thugcops, go right ahead. I hear it's a fetish to want to get with a murderer. Just be careful not to a catch a bullet coming through the cop's backside. 187.
Good. Cop was innocent. Basic shit. Resist arrest when you are 6'4 and 400lbs, yes they will take you forcefully. If you are a fat bastid with high blod pressure and a heart that is weak ... yes you may die.
What is there to figure out really ?
Resist arrest for shorting NYC out of $5 bucks so you die and you see that as OK?
If the laws were just you'd be right but they are far from it and so was the way this human being was treated. This is not Ferguson, this is considerably worse.
It's not just about criminality. It's about professional incompetence. Wilson was professionally incompetent. These fuzz were professionally incompetent. If as a police officer you cannot figure out how to arrest crazy people who are resisting without killing them, you are professionally incompetent and -- irrespective of criminal culpability -- you should be drummed off the force.
Jstanlet011: It's about professional incompetence. Wilson was professionally incompetent.
Actually that is incorrect. Wilson acted within dept policy as well as case law with the legal use of deadly force.
People can;t wrap their heads aroung this simple fact. Punch a cop. Felony. Try to disarm a cop. Felony. Run away? Fleeing Felon. LEGALLY, Wilson acted 100% within the law and acted professionally. Read up on the use of deadly force when dealing with a fleeing felon. LEGALLY, Wilson could have shot big Mike in the back, seriously, check out the laws. The fact that Mike turned around and charged Wilson was just signing a death warrant.
Wilson acted 100% within the law. If you don't like it, change the law.
Silver - Please tell me that you are not that disingenous. He resisted arrest, violently. It as little to do with the amount of $$ involved (unless you want to create a $ cutoff were physical arrest is warranted?), as you should well know. To even formulate a sentence bleating " For $5 dollars they killed him !" is really pathetic, and a totally unrealistic view of the reality of the situation.
This ain't the fuckin' Bundy Ranch ... its Staten Island 'bro. The guy was standing in a business district openly selling cigarettes (probably not the real scam but we'll keep it at that for this example) the cops see him illegally transacting. They tell him that te are going to book him. he resists, He is 6'4 feckin' 400lbs.
A simple wrist lock is not going to work on this guy. One thing leads to another, and the stupid bastid does not stop resisting until he dies of a heart attack. No resisting arrest, then no choke hold, then no heart attack ... do you understand?
The ferals in the inner cities are not logical thinkers. They react, and usually violently. The cops job is to stop them. This cop did. The guy essentially killed himself. Understand that and don't be a tool for the Alinsky_ites who are using these inner city physical altercatins with cops to completely shadow the Illegal alien crimes committed by Obola and Holder and Johnsen.
Sharpen up.
clownsonacid: He resisted arrest, violently.
I disagree, he only "fought" when he could not breath. I'd like to see a cop volunteer to get choked out and not have the "fight or flight" natural reflex kick in and "resist"
...I'm not gonna wait around for any takers... cause it ain't gonna happen.
No...he did not allow the cops to cuff him. As they moved to forcefully cuff him.. he was violent. They are tarined to atke those 400ld'ers down. If he did not resist, he would not have been choked, he would not have died because of a bad heart.
It is really straightforward.
Are you related to the offending officer?
cops do nothing when real criminals walk right past them on Wall Street for their daily drill of ripping off millions from the public -and when was the last time a wall Street fat cat got arrested for snorting coke up some high dollar hooker's ass? Yet they arrest and kill this poor schmuck with six kids for trying to support his family by selling cigarettes off the street? I have no sympathy for the cops. They are arrogant, disrespectful assholes who need to be prosecuted many , many times so the word will get out that they are to serve and protoect "Us" - not persecute the citizenry while they make most of their money on off duty details providing security for these criminal wall street rich fucks.
How you look at an innocent person die in front of your eyes and conclude something other than murder
Was not innocent. Your argument is false. Moron.
At what point in the video did the cops say, "you're under arrest"?
moron.
So if you're just a little bit pudgy, you're only looking at 3 to 5?
Moron.
A compelling argument, indeed.
Do I really need the /s?
Why did you bother asking a rhetorical question?
Personally I believe that if they are too dimwitted to not understand it then that is THEIR PROBLEM.
De Blasio sez, "In this city, the people's voices are heard."
That's right. And they're saying, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe..."
I don't need a lecture from Charlie Fucking Rangel...what a fraud.
A guy I knew in the US Navy was in a bar in the late 60s in Franco's Spain. A local got very drunk and loud--he was a big guy and he laid out a bouncer or two. The Guardia Civil came in and shouted an order. The guy didn't obey. They stitched him with a sub machine gun.
We're not far from that, not far at all in some places.
I saw them shoot at a tourista for taking their photo. It was, how they say, mala prohibita.
The whole South can relate to this shit.
They started a war and invaded when we resisted tobacco taxes.