Selling bootleg cigarettes? Death penalty on the spot.

[Sean88gt]

The coroner is throwing the proximate cause on the cops, while the union is throwing it on the deceased.

But for the cops using excessive force, the man wouldn't have died just standing there.

Union: but for the negro selling cigarettes illegally and being a giant tub of shit that can't take a solid dose of correction, the man wouldn't have died.

[mardyn]

Fat boy (and multiple time offender) was resisting arrest, but it seems to me he posed no real threat to the officers. The dickwad who applied the choke hold to subdue should be charged in the matter.

mardyn

[jewozzy]

In order to choke someone to death you have to maintain airway closure long after they are unconscious. This is murder. No 2 ways about it.

That didn't happen if you see the video. What does it take to cause death based on his size and the position he's laying?

[Machx2]

I'd choke someone if they were beating my ass. Won't if I am struggling to get their hands behind their back.

[matts5.0]

I'd choke someone if they were beating my ass. Won't if I am struggling to get their hands behind their back.

He wasnt, hell he wasn't really resisting much.

[01-GATOR]

FTP

Always getting away with murder

[davbrucas]

He was a fatty? Oh. Then choke away, outstanding officers.

[davbrucas]

That didn't happen if you see the video. What does it take to cause death based on his size and the position he's laying?

Just lobbing cow patties at you guys...sooner or later I'm gonna splatter someone.

[Cooter]

he was a fatty? Oh. Then choke away, outstanding officers.

lmgdao

[YALE]

You don't have to restrict the airway totally to cut off oxygen with a chokehold. You can cut off blood flow when you're squeezing. That's how a sleeper hold works.

[roliath]

i seriously can't wait until officers start getting prosecuted and being handed down life sentences or death penalty for their bullshit actions.

[Baron Von Crowder]

He was a fatty? Oh. Then choke away, outstanding officers.

[racrguy]

i seriously can't wait until officers start getting prosecuted and being handed down life sentences or death penalty for their bullshit actions.

Until we remove the police protection net, it'll never happen at the rate it should.

[YALE]

i seriously can't wait until officers start getting prosecuted and being handed down life sentences or death penalty for their bullshit actions.

That cop got indicted, didn't he? The ME's office ruled it a homicide.

[roliath]

That cop got indicted, didn't he? The ME's office ruled it a homicide.

I don't see where a cop was indicted on charges of homicide in this case.

The officer who was seen in the video placing Garner in the choke hold, Daniel Pantaleo, an eight-year veteran, was placed on modified assignment pending the outcome of investigations into the incident by the district attorney and NYPD Internal Affairs unit. The FBI also said it was monitoring the case.

Pantaleo's gun and badge were taken away pending the outcome of the investigations.