Eric Garner was an unarmed black guy asphyxiated to death by a police officer applying an illegal chokehold on him. Garner wasn't threatening to the cop, nor to the other four officer detaining him, apparently just because Garner was breaking up a fight, and had a history of selling untaxed cigarettes. Here's the story, by The Young Turks...
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Garner repeatedly asks the policemen to leave him alone. Then the cops jump over him, and as officer Daniel Pantaleo chokes him, Garner warns him out loud "I can't breathe, I can't breathe", many times.
Everything was recorded on video. Yesterday a Grand Jury decided not to bring any charges on the officer that killed Garner. This is all so unbelievably unfair! And enormously sad. I can't watch Garner's detention without having tears coming to my eyes.
That is why I wanted to share some of the reactions to this story here.
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... and The Daily Show.
Everything was recorded on video. Yesterday a Grand Jury decided not to bring any charges on the officer that killed Garner. This is all so unbelievably unfair! And enormously sad. I can't watch Garner's detention without having tears coming to my eyes.
Eric Garner's last words. pic.twitter.com/5lbqIEm63t
— John Green (@johngreen) December 4, 2014This is what we'd be saying about Eric Garner's death if it happened in another country: http://t.co/Guf83neM4wpic.twitter.com/6tXDBMRvX8
— Slate (@Slate) December 3, 2014Eric Garner's widow.
Finally, part of Jon Stewart's reponse (that on the video I posted above), as a gifset (via).
