N.y. Cop Not Indicted In Choke Hold Death

[Restorium2]

I read this giant had 30 prior arrests, most likely played a part in this.

Shouldn't have. Not legally if the rules are right. No one deserves what you saw on camera. No excuses. Excuses lead to inaction.

[Wild Bill]

Shouldn't have. Not legally if the rules are right. No one deserves what you saw on camera. No excuses. Excuses lead to inaction.

 

He was murdered over a couple of cigarettes.

[Highlander]

Shouldn't have. Not legally if the rules are right. No one deserves what you saw on camera. No excuses. Excuses lead to inaction.

 

I just heard a news report on NPR...that the "choke-hold" on the "perp" probably wasn't the real problem (cause of death).  The real problem was that the other cops gang-piled on him, compressing his ribs/lungs by pressing their knees into him while he was on the ground, and that with every breath when he said "I can't breathe" his lungs collapsed more, so the knees of the cops on top of him kept squeezing the life out of him.  Putting 400+ pounds of cops on top of any guy would have this same result.  Every exhale/words spoken just meant more air out of his lungs and a step closer to his death.  And the real clincher is that the cop who put him in the cholk-hold was the guy being reviewed by the grand jury....yet the grand jury didn't see the cholk-holding cop as as the bad guy.....they looked at the other cops who jam-piled on him as the more likely cause of death...but the the cops who jam-piled were given immunity in exchange for the their testimony.  So this is a real farse.  Did a giant black dude deserve to die because he was selling loose cigs? 

 

Then, look a little closer at the videos.  You can see the cops subdue him next to a HUGE glass window.   You can even see the glass pane shaking.  I kinda find it irresponsible for cops to tackle this guy next to a wall of glass, knowing that the glass window could/would likely crash down on all of them.  Giving the cops the benefit of the doubt when taking down this guy, it is still stupid on their part to wrestle a giant next to a huge plate glass window. 

 

But, ego is as ego does...I guess.

[bobandtorey]

I hear he died because of his health  

 

Just goes to show you Leo and the News will spin it their way and we the people will never see what the grand jury saw they will release some bits and pieces that all until they think they have a OUT

Edited December 5, 2014 by bobandtorey

[trichcycler]

they claim he resisted arrest when he swatted police hands away from him. I see on the video he tried to crawl away for a second  from the police while they were choking him, who wouldn't?

[bobandtorey]

I just wonder how things would be different if no Video thats how i think 

[+Malamute]

They could have easily just wrote him up to appear in court and let him go on his own recognizance.  Seems more sensible aye?  We aren't talking class x felony here... heh.

[jointedone]

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Edited December 6, 2014 by jointedone

[trichcycler]

 

 

By Laila Kearn 

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The white New York City police officer who put unarmed black Staten Island resident Eric Garner in a chokehold moments before his death has been accused by other black men of violating their civil rights while he was on patrol.

 

A grand jury's decision on Wednesday not to indict officer Daniel Pantaleo for his role in the videotaped confrontation that left 43-year-old Garner dead has sparked days of protests by groups claiming U.S. law enforcement unfairly targets African-Americans and other minorities.

 

Court filings obtained by Reuters on Friday show that four black men have sued Pantaleo over two separate 2012 incidents over claims of being stopped, strip-searched and arrested without cause.

 

Pantaleo's attorney and New York City's legal department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

In June 2013, Darren Collins, 46, and Tommy Rice, 42, filed a federal lawsuit against Pantaleo and a group of other New York police officers.

 

Collins and Rice claimed the officers stopped them as they drove on a Staten Island road. The men were ordered out of the car and handcuffed, despite a lack of reason to believe they had committed a crime, the lawsuit claimed.

 

Pantaleo and the other officers also strip searched the men in public while they were handcuffed, the lawsuit claimed.

 

It also claimed that Pantaleo provided false evidence against the men and that he and the other officers arrested the men to meet quotas and collect overtime, among other reasons.

 

Charges against Collins and Rice were later dismissed and sealed in Richmond County Criminal Court.

 

The city settled the lawsuit in January, according to court filings. The terms were not disclosed.

 

In a separate case, Rylawn Walker and Kenneth Smith filed lawsuits in February and November against Pantaleo and other officers, claiming they were stopped without cause while walking together in Staten Island, illegally strip searched and arrested on false marijuana charges.

 

Walker was 19 at the time of the February 2012 incident, while Smith was 22.

 

The city has moved to dismiss most of the claims asserted by Rylawn Walker and has not yet responded to Smith's complaint.