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New York (CNN) -- A grand jury in New York on Wednesday decided not to indict white police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July choke hold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, according to two law enforcement officials.

During the fatal encounter July 17 Garner raised both hands in the air and told the officers not to touch him. Seconds later, a video shows an officer behind Garner grab him in a choke hold and pull him to the sidewalk, rolling him onto his stomach.

"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Garner said repeatedly, his cries muffled into the pavement.

The grand jury was made up of 14 white and nine nonwhite members.

The cause of Garner's death was "compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police," the medical examiner's office has said. The death was ruled a homicide.

140720084847-irpt-chokehold-al-sharpton-Chokehold victim's family, friends protest

 
140721114633-vo-nypd-chokehold-00011721-Demonstrating a banned chokehold

 
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The New York City Police Department prohibits choke holds.

Garner, 43, was pronounced dead that day. Police had suspected Garner of selling cigarettes illegally.

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It shouldn't be banned,... it is simply illegal.  A police officer deserves less rights than a citizen. Unfortunately, they are given immensely more protections than an average citizen.  There is no citizen that could have done  that and not be on trial right now for murder or at minimum manslaughter.

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11 Facts About the Eric Garner Case the Media Won't Tell You (?)http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/eric-garner-chokehold-grand-jury-police/2014/12/04/id/611058/

 

 

Sources in the mainstream media expressed outrage after a grand jury declined to indict a New York City policeman in the death of Eric Garner, but there are 11 significant facts that many of them have chosen to overlook:

 

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1. There is no doubt that Garner was resisting an arrest for illegally selling untaxed cigarettes. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik put it succinctly: "You cannot resist arrest. If Eric Garner did not resist arrest, the outcome of this case would have been very different," he told Newsmax. "He wouldn't be dead today.

 

"Regardless of what the arrest was for, the officers don't have the ability to say, 'Well, this is a minor arrest, so we're just going to ignore you.'"

 

2. The video of the July 17 incident clearly shows Garner, an African-American, swatting away the arms of a white officer seeking to take him into custody, telling him: "Don't touch me!"

 

3. Garner, 43, had history of more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980, on charges including assault and grand larceny.

 

4. At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false impersonation.

 

5. The chokehold that Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo put on Garner was reported to have contributed to his death. But Garner, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 350 pounds, suffered from a number of health problems, including heart disease, severe asthma, diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Pantaleo's attorney and police union officials argued that Garner's poor health was the main cause of his death.

 

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6. Garner did not die at the scene of the confrontation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance taking him to the hospital and was pronounced dead about an hour later.

 

7. Much has been made of the fact that the use of chokeholds by police is prohibited in New York City. But officers reportedly still use them. Between 2009 and mid-2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board received 1,128 chokehold allegations.

 

Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, said: "It was clear that the officer's intention was to do nothing more than take Mr. Garner into custody as instructed, and that he used the takedown technique that he learned in the academy when Mr. Garner refused."

 

8. The grand jury began hearing the case on Sept. 29 and did not reach a decision until Wednesday, so there is much testimony that was presented that has not been made public.

 

9. The 23-member grand jury included nine non-white jurors.

 

10. In order to find Officer Pantaleo criminally negligent, the grand jury would have had to determine that he knew there was a "substantial risk" that Garner would have died due to the takedown.

 

11. Less than a month after Garner's death, Ramsey Orta, who shot the much-viewed videotape of the encounter, was indicted on weapons charges. Police alleged that Orta had slipped a .25-caliber handgun into a teenage accomplice's waistband outside a New York hotel.

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Police officers' shocking responses to the Eric Garner decision

 

"He killed himself"

"Fatso"

"If you can talk, you can breathe"

 

 

 

 

PoliceOne.com is a discussion forum for law enforcement officers, and while anyone can access some of the site content, commenting privileges are available exclusively to verified police. The PoliceOne.com staff "confirm the status of all officers registering for PoliceOne by calling that officer's department directly."

 

That detail is important, because it means that these responses to the Eric Garner verdict were definitely made by actual police officers:

 

 

http://www.policeone.com/eric-garner/articles/7921845-No-indictment-in-NYPD-in-custody-death/#comments_block

 

 

 

 

 

All screenshots were taken from this comment thread at PoliceOne.com.

- - Bonnie Kristian

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The NYPD officer caught on video putting a Staten Island man in a chokehold moments before he died has been sued twice for alleged civil rights violations, costing taxpayers $30,000 in settlement money (so far). Officer Daniel Pantaleo, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD, allegedly subjected two men to "a humiliating and unlawful strip search" on a Staten Island street, where they were forced to "pull their pants and underwear down, squat and cough."

 

That lawsuit was settled in January for $30,000. The plaintiffs alleged that Pantaleo and other officers "unlawfully stopped" them as the drove in a car through Staten Island. According to the lawsuit, Pantaleo falsely claimed that he saw crack and heroin in the backseat of the car—everyone in the vehicle was arrested, but the charges were subsequently dismissed.

 

The Staten Island Advance reports that a second lawsuit, which is still winding its way though the courts, accuses Pantaleo and other officers of misrepresenting facts in a police report to substantiate charges that were eventually dismissed. The plaintiff, Rylawn Walker, alleges that Pantaleo arrested him last February for marijuana-related charges, even though he was "committing no crime at that time and was not acting in a suspicious manner."

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One thing that just about made me vomit yesterday;

 

They had 'a legal expert' on CNN yesterday that commented on how the percentage of violence by cops went down over 60% after they had cameras on them. The sickening part was when the expert said it was because the people the cops encounter act better when they are on camera, not that the cops beat up less people while on camera. The expert used to be a prosecutor. 

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lol. but yeah we need more cameras.

 

remember the video of the cop punching the guy and tripping the pregnant woman? one of the cops yelling camera to his fellow police officers. like oh bunny muffin its camera time. time to stop punching and start deleting EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME.

 

isnt that conspiracy to commit a crime (evidence destruction) and witness intimidation? hmmmmm

 

sorry, above i put "cops walk free everytime", but i am wrong, some police are prosecuted.

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People have been arrested for filming cops beating azzes. They killed that guy. But if he was a white guy,ole not-so-sharp Al Sharpton wouldn't be there,would he? What church is he a pastor of,I can't recall.................................Pay your taxes,Al.

 

 

New York's African-American preacher, activist and presidential candidate 

Name at birth: Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr.

 

Reverend Al Sharpton is a fiery orator and activist from New York City who became famous in the 1980s for his protests against police brutality and racial injustice. As a child, Sharpton was ordained as a minister and was known as the "boy wonder" preacher of the Washington Temple Church of God. Part activist and part entertainer, he founded the National Youth Movement right out of high school, worked as a tour manager for singer James Brown and toured with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. In the 1970s and '80s he worked with boxing promoter Don King before becoming well-known to New Yorkers as a guy who always seemed to be in the middle of hot-button racial issues. His reputation took a blow in 1987 when he was the spokesman for Tawana Bradley, an African-American teenager who accused a group of white men of rape -- a charge a grand jury deemed a hoax. In later years Sharpton has refashioned himself as a more mature spokesman for the downtrodden. He ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States in 2004.

 

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This can be simplified;

 

It's not a black thing...because a pot stinking fat mountain man type white guy would have gotten the same treatment, if the appropriate hater cop was involved. 

 

It's not 'getting cameras' thing either. Everything that happened was on video and it still didn't go right with the grand jury.

 

It's not a 'we cops are going to adjust our policy' thing either. They would love it to be just that. Sorry, that will not fix a thing. 

 

What will fix this is whatever new laws that would make a grand jury indict this cop. That's the litmus test whether the fix is right. He squeezed off the guys blood flow and kneeled on his face. We need to change some laws to the effect that this cop gets indicted next time. Doesn't matter what color who ever is. 

 

There sure is a lot of miss direction and tangents messing the fix up. The fix is simple. 

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