Discussion for article #230805
Saw a “Miami Vice” in the '80’s when the corrupt Bahamian policeman smirked to Sonny:
“Again, my deepest condolences in your hour of grief”
All viewers of the show knew at that moment that the Bahamian was a slug (it came out, officially, later in the episode).
When I saw THIS “condolences” offering to Garner’s wife last night, I was made aware that this was the same kind of cop as I saw almost 30 years ago. Only worse.
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The cop 30 years ago was a character in a play. The cop giving fake condolences in this case is a very real killer who has been protected by his fellow cops and a very, very bad prosecutor who is in the bag for the cops.
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I guess “I’m so sorry for murdering him but look at the terrible situation I’m in” doesn’t carry the weight it did back in the mid 1800’s.
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Ms. Garner’s condolences will come in the form of a DOJ indictment.
The trial will be difficult, but hopefully, and ultimately, constructive in revising police methods and attitudes.
jw1
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I agree with Mrs. Garner.
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As though I (a descendant of slaves who lived in poverty in Latin America in a country in which police can and do KILL and who saw and experienced U.S. racism in the 1950s) am not aware that Garner is not a fictional character.
Thanks.
This is exactly why the “fight-each-other” people on the Left in the U.S. are presently losing to a much smaller, older, more determined bunch of racist pricks. On the ground and in Congress.
What if a screenwriter who depicted a FICTIONAL account of a Jewish Holocaust event were to show his film to you (since you are, apparently, against metaphors in drama which approximate real life)? Would you castgate him? Or is it just my Mexican identity that pisses you off?
I can be stupidly ultrasensitive too.
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I was talking about a character in a Miami Vice TV show, not some real person in Latin America.
The whole world is watching.
The whole world is watching.
The whole world is watching.
The whole world is watching…
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oh man, it’s so hard to have that kind of hope in the US.
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The family of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died in July after a confrontation with the police, has hired a longtime civil rights lawyer Jonathan C. Moore, who was one of the lawyers involved in the litigation that challenged the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactic. He also helped to represent the five men whose convictions were ultimately overturned in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, a lawsuit that was settled for $41 million.
Mr. Moore, a partner in the law firm Beldock Levine & Hoffman, said in a phone interview on Friday that he and his firm had been hired “to represent the estate of Mr. Garner for all aspects — everything arising out of his July 17 death.
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NYC legal likely birthing a litter of kittens with this pronouncement.
Should have allowed it to go to trial Mr. Prosecutor.
This should not end well for the city, nor NYPD.
jw1
No it won’t, and maybe only by New York going broke paying damages on black men its police force has killed will the the cops on the beat adhere to what comes down from the Mayor and Police Commissioner, to begin with, the ban on choke holds.
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