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Now if I were a Republican, I’d say this is how the markets regulate bad behavior: see no regulations or criminal justice needed. Then I’d be calling my congress person about all those damn frivolous lawsuits!
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There is some missing information here, or the hospital just gave up in the face of whatever the lawyers were threatening. You don’t do CPR or intubate someone who is breathing. Did he stop breathing and they ignored it, or what?
wasn’t part of the $5.9 million agreement announced by the city in July
Will the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York be covering this expense, or do they expect Beyoncé to hold some fund-raising concerts?
I don’t know if the paramedics and EMTs could have saved his life, but I know they didn’t create the problem. Some officers decided that they had to make an arrest for a bullshit, nonviolent nano-infraction that they didn’t witness and that the DA would never bother prosecuting. The officers further decided that it was necessary to get physical to make the arrest, even though Garner was neither trying to flee the scene nor trying to harm any person or property. Those officers killed him.
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I think the point was he wasn’t. Breathing that is.
I’m sure Garner’s death was all within “department policy” and “hospital policy”. Perhaps the the policy needs to change since it allows this crap.
From what I understand Garner had a history of selling “loosies” or single cigarettes. Since a pack of cigs is more than 12 bucks in NYC ( New York has the highest cost for tobacco in the USA ) lots of folks like to buy just one as it costs so much less. So Garner buys a pack, and pays the taxes when he does so, then sells the smokes as singles, at a mark up for profit, on the street. The beef is a tax beef. Even though Garner paid the sales tax when he bought the pack.
This is the crime. Again, from what I understand he was NOT selling cigs at the time of his fatal encounter with the police but because of his prior history the Cops thought is OK ( and I’m sure within Department policy ) to fuck with him. He objected as an American should and was killed. Like Freddie Gray or Tamir Rice he had not committed a crime but Cops thought their innocence warranted lethal enforcement. ( You shoot it’s lethal, you choke hold its lethal ) What do they have in common?
Not to worry though. It’s all within “department policy”. And that is the problem…not the Black folks. And for the authoritarians out there…you can bet this killing was defensible…that’s why the payouts exceed 6 million.
“Later, when a bystander asks on video why they aren’t trying to resuscitate him, an officer says it’s because Garner is breathing.”
What is a trained medical professional supposed to believe - an “officer” or his own lying eyes?