We all know the short version of Eric Garner's story by now: Garner was illegally selling cigarettes on a street corner, was confronted by NYPD officers, resisted arrest, and was taken to ground. A choke hold appears to have been used to subdue Garner, and he later died of heart failure on the way to a hospital. A grand jury found no cause to indict the police officer who applied the choke hold. Demonstrations and riots ensued. The racial hatred people got into the act, as did the communists and anarchists. It's a mess.
I admit up front to having a pro-police bias. Cops have a hard, hard job dealing with the worst people in society, oftentimes people who are all too willing to harm or kill cops. I understand that. I think Darren Wilson did the right thing when he killed a charging Michael Brown who moments earlier had tried to shoot Wilson with Wilson's own gun. Perps kill cops, cops need to defend themselves.
But I think Eric Garner should be alive today. And at the same time I think it was right that the grand jury in Staten Island didn't indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for causing Eric Garner's death by using the choke hold Pantaleo was seen on video applying to Eric Garner as other officers were working to cuff Garner. We hear Garner saying repeatedly that he can't breathe.
There is a lot of blame to go around for Garner's death. The media and the fomenters of racial war did the easy thing: The blamed the white cop.
Here's what bothers me about this story:
Why was Kizzy Adoni not held accountable? Kizzy Adoni is the black NYPD police sergeant who supervised the other officers in the arrest of Eric Garner. At no time did Adoni tell the cops who she was supervising to stop, or to take an alternative course of action.
Why did this arrest happen? Listening to NYC talk radio in the days following the indictment, I heard NYPD cops calling in, voices masked, talking about how the alderman has called police district HQ demanding on behalf of the store owner that Garner be moved away form his store. The District commander told Kizzy Adoni that she had damned well better arrest the guy (Garner) and get him off the corner for a while. Favoritism writ large.
Garner said that he couldn't breathe. But he could inhale and exhale enough to say that he couldn't breathe. He wasn't being choked, He was getting air. The coronor's report said that was no indication of injury to Garner's neck or throat. Read more here. Garner died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital. He had a heart attack. Garner suffered form heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and sleep apnea. He weighed 350 pounds.
This would have been a non-story if not for the difference in skin color between some of the cops and Eric Garner. Eric Garner's skin color is being used to make this story what it is. But Eric Garner's daughter doesn't think that it was about race.
Little mention is made of Garner's record - thirty arrests in a thirty-four year period. This was a career criminal who would have faced a return to prison with his next arrest, which is the reason why he resisted multiple officers.This excellent article highlights the things that trouble me about Eric Garner's death. Please read it. I don't think that Garner should have died. Just the same, I don't see any one individual who should be held accountable for Garner's death, except perhaps Garner himself for putting up resistance to being arrested. But I can see some major culpability in the NYPD hierarchy, beginning with the mayor on down to the District command staff and Kizzy Adoni, the supervisor on scene.
All of them need to be held accountable, and none of them will. And that's what truly bothers me about the circumstances that surround Eric Garner's death. And by holding no on accountable, the rioters and race warrior can interpret Eric Garner's death in they way most beneficial to themselves and their objectives, whether true or not.
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A perp resisting arrest poses an extreme danger to the cop attempting to make the arrest. It's placing an impossible standard on the cop to demand that he modulate the force he applies to subdue the perp. Is the cop supposed to use less force because the perp momentarily resists a little less or claims that he can't breath? What if the cop eases up and the perp resumes struggling and turns the tables or even successfully grabs the cop's gun? The problem is not out of control cops; it's an underclass that lauds "Showing the Man."
At the beginning of the De Blasio administration one of his chief supporters a black minister who had outstanding warrants and was sprung because the mayor called and demanded they let him go.
This is typical of De Blasio. It's who you know. His supporters and bagmen walk. But they put pressure on the cops to arrest this knucklehead and he ends up dead. With a black supervisor no less. Why didn't she step in and talk to the guy? Is she there to fulfill a quota? Did she vote present? Was she eating a waffle? She was in charge. She called the tune. She was responsible on the scene as the supervisor. You can be sure if the Sargent was named Murphy he would be up on charges.
What a joke.
That guy did not deserve to die. He was an unhealthy fat fuck and it was just bad luck. He could have caught a heart attack bending over to tie his shoes.
Trust me I know how true that is.
The real problem is these tiny cops. They all have Napoleon complexes. The cops should all be fat Irish guys over six feet tall swinging a billy club and farting out beer and hard boiled eggs like a Jimmy Cagney/Pat O'Brien movie.
No midget Asian girl cops with batons bigger than their arms. These midgets have to go right to the choke hold or the taser or the gun.
A big Irish guy or Black guy or just a larger guy would have walked this guy over to the car and got him in custody without making it Custer's last stand. Put in height and weight requirements and lower the test score standards and we will get the police force we need.
Oh and by the way. Kizzy? Wtf?
Who was her father? LeVar Burton?
I grow weary.
Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it -- educating an 80 yr old man on political truths. But I sense the email is not private because the one sent to me is forwarded.
His was one of those cute types you see passed along with ironic observation. Items not looted, paper, pens, pencils, work glovers, what have you, things useful for study or work.
POW
I let it all out in a stream. A beautiful logical irrefutable stream with a dozen links that nobody in their right mind can click through completely.
Item 2: the Ferguson incident mentioned in his original forward.
Item 3: Eric Garner stating these facts.
Item 1: Travon Martin and our malevolent legacy media losing their gatekeeper role.
Item 4: Kermit Goznell, America's most prolific mass murderer nobody heard of.
Lord, I did go on.
I'm certain I bore him to death.
And now I must take a hike.
Parmesian Reggiano on sale for $10.00 LB.
One can never have too much Reggiano. I wonder, does it freeze? One time I froze smoked Edam and when thawed it turned out crap. So now I am hesitant.
I guess you CAN have too much Reggiano.
Agree with all your arguments, Haz.
Once again, the media is the bigger story when you peel back the curtain. They hype one story, without all the facts, then ignore another.
then there's this - from the article.
...And the media blowing this case into a white-hot racial issue stands in sharp contrast to their censorship of the brutal street-lynching of a White driver near Ferguson on Sunday — after a Black mob screaming “F**k the White people…Kill the White people” beat Bosnian immigrant Zemir Begic to death with hammers in front of his newlywed wife.
That was a crystal clear hate crime murder. Yet there are no international hashtags to protest Begic’s lynching.
Instead - media fall all over themselves to say "not a hate crime! "not racially motivated."
The media's reprehensible narrative spinning inspired that murder, and they know it.
I agree that it was a wrongful death, but that's something very different than a murder. I have heard the various commentators on CNN giving the play by play of Garner's takedown as though it was a blatant atrocity. It just wasn't.......During this past week there was another crime that was videotaped and shown on tv. A young mother was carrying her baby in a front harness. A mugger came up behind her and kicked her to the ground. The mugger then grabbed her phone and ran off........The mugger was later apprehended. He said that he didn't know she had a baby and sincerely apologized for the act. They interviewed the woman. She said that she doubted the mugger's sincerity as he saw her sprawled out with the baby and he still took the phone. She said this in the resigned tones of someone describing their experience with tornado.......It was a one day affair. The crime wasn't shown on CNN. There was no speculation about whether the crime was motivated by racism or sexism. There was no deep think analysis about whether the culture of the community in any way contributed to the young man's pathology......Any negative speculation on black criminality is racist. Any negative speculation on white law enforcement is a search for truth and justice.
His death was not preventable. Genetics and or lifestyle set him up to have a heart attack, and soon. It was going to happen the next time he exerted or stressed himself. The cops we're simply in the wrong place and time, and so our retarded idiocracy's culture blames them for it because a lot of people get power and or money from that bit of theater.
Eric Garners fading sympathy.
Black privilege.
This is a good post. And the article provides some important background.
I think you're right that ultimately police departments should face greater scrutiny about all this. Stop going after individual cops and place the pressure on the organization that should be leading the charge to enforce a better example in the first place: The departmental organization. Going after the bureaucracy is the best way to prevent the bureaucracy from being too inscrutable for basic accountability to take place.
Obviously there are mitigating circumstances in Garner's death. Lord help us if we can never use any restraint on account of fearing that it would stress out a 350 lb diabetic to the point of rattling loose a clot into the ticker. God forbid a leftist might not be able to arrest Dick Cheny out of such a fear.
Yeah, his medical history is definitely pertinent. It almost begs the question of forcing these media outlets to change their angle to a story asking: "How fat is fat enough to avoid arrest?"
"Please don't arrest me officer. I might resist in such a way as to cause myself bodily harm. Not from you, but internally."
Not guilty by reason of morbid obesity.
lol
Choosing a career of crime does not preclude one from death by natural causes, although it does reduce the risks to some degree. Resisting arrest offers further protection, and attacking armed people, especially trained police officers, has been shown to substantially improve one's chances of avoiding a natural death, but all these methods still cannot offer 100% immunity. If one wants to get serious about it, there are effective methods available. Just google it.
Guess I'm wrong. I Googled "how to avoid a natural death", and found just bait and switch stuff on how to assure a natural death rather than how to avoid one. Nothing about hang gliding, ice tea and skittles, or David Carradine.
How many white people are killed or injured as a result of overly physical police work? How does that number compare statistically with the number of black people so afflicted? How about the statistical comparison to Asians? I don't know the answer to this question and I haven't seen anyone ask, let alone bother to provide an answer and context to this question which is a very relevant and very basic factual prerequisite to the lefty-media argument of systemic racial discrimination against black people by the police. If there's no significant racial disparity or if significant racial disparity depends on context other than racial discrimination then this latest national clown show staged by the media and the Obama Administration is just (1) a giant waste if everyone's time and (2) distracting attention from real problems, like useful approaches to correcting shoddy policing. And the national debt and a nuclearizing Iran. The little things. To say nothing of the nonstop stupid blatant scandal factory that is the Obama Administration.
According to the medical examiner, Garner did not die from the "chokehold," which apparently was not a chokehold anyway, and in any case was not applied long enough to cause harm, but from being placed face down on the sidewalk and pushed down, which caused chest compression so that he could not readily draw breath in, though he could expel breath enough to speak a little.
I do not see that the cops then were "unconcerned"about his condition. One cop was checking on him, and the others did not realize he was suffering more than some discomfort.
As for the grand jury, it sounds to me like the DA followed the hullabaloo in the MSM and prepared for a case against Pantaleo and the "chokehold" and gave the other officers immunity, so that they would be obliged to testify against Pantaleo. Then the ME said, no, the "chokehold" did not cause Garner's death, the other officers pushing him down did.
Oops!
Here's another question for those who are serious about this issue: Isn't the plethora of discredited stories unhelpful to the cause? Story after story after story start out all filled with righteous indignation at the evil white authority figures cruelly disregarding the most basic black civil rights and then they degenerate. Makes the activists and the media (but I repeat myself) look like they're chasing the great white (racist) whale.
Trooper York siad ...
This is typical of De Blasio. It's who you know. His supporters and bagmen walk.
Is De Blasio the white Kwame Kilpatrick? He is a former (recent) Mayor of Detroit now serving 28 years in the federal pen. Sometimes these guys take a step too far. Ole Kwame finally managed to lie once too often and steal/extort too much money, same for his bagmen, one of which was his father. All convicted.
Maybe NYC can get lucky, too :-)
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