The video of Eric Garner's death is one of those two or three minutes that leaves it's impact forever.
"I can't breathe...." ....eleven times.
There is nothing good here, not for anyone. No one will say 'I'm glad that happened...' because no one is.
Radio host Sandy Boyer, from the communist radio voice in NYC, WBAI, wrote the following for the Socialist Worker, Will there be justice for Eric Garner SocialistWorker.org
1. "IN NEW York City, like in Ferguson, African Americans aren't safe walking down the street.
2. Eric Garner was strangled to death by Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo in broad daylight on Staten Island .....
3. His killing might have gone almost unnoticed if a friend hadn't videotaped it--only to be arrested in retaliation for recording a police murder.
4. .... Pantaleo can be seen holding Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold as he wrestles him to the ground. Garner can be heard crying out, "I can't breathe." The video shows Pantaleo pushing Garner's face into the sidewalk. Garner died a few minutes later--but police waited seven minutes before trying to resuscitate him.
5. New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson has ruled the Garner's death was a homicide. She found that it was the chokehold, ... that killed him.
6. Garner's "crime" was underselling local merchants by selling "loosies"--single, untaxed cigarettes--on the street for 50 cents apiece.
7. Cops routinely hassled Garner. He was out on bail for selling untaxed cigarettes the day they killed him.
When the cops came after him, Garner threw his arms in the air and yelled, "I was just minding my own business. Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I'm tired of it. It stops today." Will there be justice for Eric Garner SocialistWorker.org
FULL Black Man KILLED After NYPD Cop Puts Him In CHOKEHOLD For Breaking Up a FIGHT - YouTube
"I can't breathe...." ....eleven times.
There is nothing good here, not for anyone. No one will say 'I'm glad that happened...' because no one is.
Radio host Sandy Boyer, from the communist radio voice in NYC, WBAI, wrote the following for the Socialist Worker, Will there be justice for Eric Garner SocialistWorker.org
1. "IN NEW York City, like in Ferguson, African Americans aren't safe walking down the street.
2. Eric Garner was strangled to death by Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo in broad daylight on Staten Island .....
3. His killing might have gone almost unnoticed if a friend hadn't videotaped it--only to be arrested in retaliation for recording a police murder.
4. .... Pantaleo can be seen holding Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold as he wrestles him to the ground. Garner can be heard crying out, "I can't breathe." The video shows Pantaleo pushing Garner's face into the sidewalk. Garner died a few minutes later--but police waited seven minutes before trying to resuscitate him.
5. New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson has ruled the Garner's death was a homicide. She found that it was the chokehold, ... that killed him.
6. Garner's "crime" was underselling local merchants by selling "loosies"--single, untaxed cigarettes--on the street for 50 cents apiece.
7. Cops routinely hassled Garner. He was out on bail for selling untaxed cigarettes the day they killed him.
When the cops came after him, Garner threw his arms in the air and yelled, "I was just minding my own business. Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I'm tired of it. It stops today." Will there be justice for Eric Garner SocialistWorker.org
FULL Black Man KILLED After NYPD Cop Puts Him In CHOKEHOLD For Breaking Up a FIGHT - YouTube