Police Brutality in NY: Man Killed by Chokehold

[yellowarse]

<object id="flashObj" width="700" height="394" classid="clsid<img src=" images="" smilies="" biggrin.gif"="" border="0" alt="" title="Big Grin" smilieid="3" class="inlineimg">Another fucked-up case of American police brutality, this time perpetrated on an unarmed man who's well-loved in the Staten Island neighbourhood and whose only crime was breaking up a fight. And the racist murderer cop was not indicted.

Waves of protest have already started in various American cities. Obama: “When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem, and it’s my job as president to help solve it.”

You be the judge.

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Here’s What a Chokehold Actually Is

Josh Sanburn@joshsanburn
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On Wednesday, a grand jury in New York decided not to indict an NYPD officer in the death of an unarmed black man during his arrest for selling loose cigarettes in his Staten Island neighborhood.

Video footage of the incident shows Eric Garner being subdued by several officers, with NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo apparently wrapping his forearm around the man’s neck — a move that has widely been described as a “chokehold.” Garner can be heard in the video saying “I can’t breathe.”

In grand jury testimony, Pantaleo says he merely used a maneuver that had been taught to him in police academy. According to the New York Times, Pantaleo says he hooked his arm under one of Garner’s arms as he wrapped his other arm around Garner’s body.

But was it a chokehold? Here’s the precise language the NYPD Patrol Guide uses to describe the maneuver, which it has banned for two decades:

“A chokehold shall include, but is not limited to, any pressure to the throat or windpipe, which may prevent or hinder breathing or reduce intake of air.”

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That definition is generally the same one used in martial arts or other combat sports.

Despite the ban, chokeholds are still widely used by police officers in New York City. According to the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, dozens of chokehold complaints are filed every year. So far this year, more than 100 have been filed. The high water mark was in 2012, when about 250 complaints were lodged.

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[McDonaldsKid]

There are protests happening now in many cities in the US. Surreal.

 

[eatshitndie]

sinkies should enjoy their blessings as sinkie poodles would likely get choked on their yew char kway first before arresting anyone.

 

[yellowarse]

There are protests happening now in many cities in the US. Surreal.

You bet.

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Thousands across U.S. protest chokehold decision: ‘Logic doesn’t play a role’

Despite a video seen by millions, a U.S. grand jury once again cleared a white cop of killing an unarmed black man.

By: Tom Hays And Colleen Long Associated Press, Published on Thu Dec 04 2014
NEW YORK — The cellphone video of the last moments of Eric Garner’s life was watched millions of times on the Internet, clearly showing a white police officer holding the unarmed black man in a chokehold, even as he repeatedly gasped, “I can’t breathe.”


But despite that visual evidence, and a medical examiner’s ruling that the chokehold contributed to the death, a Staten Island grand jury decided Wednesday not to bring any charges against the officer involved, prompting protests across the country and sending thousands onto New York’s streets, where they marched, chanted and blocked traffic into the next morning.

While legal experts note it’s impossible to know how the grand jurors reached their conclusion, they say the Garner case, like Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, once again raised concerns about the influence local prosecutors have over the process of charging the police officers they work with on a daily basis.

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LIndsey Ellefson, 22, lies down during a protest in Grand Central Terminal Wednesday in New York. Protests began after a grand jury decided to not indict officer Daniel Pantaleo.



“The video speaks for itself,” said Jeffrey Fagan, a professor at Columbia Law School. “It appears to show negligence. But if we learned anything from the Brown case, it’s the power of prosecutors to construct and manage a narrative in a way that can shape the outcome.”

Ekow N. Yankah, a professor at Cardozo School of Law, agreed that, “It is hard to understand how a jury doesn’t see any probable cause that a crime has been committed or is being committed when looking at that video, especially.”

Another observer, James A. Cohen, who teaches at Fordham University Law School, went further, saying, “Logic doesn’t play a role in this process.”

U.S. Attorney Eric Holder said federal prosecutors would conduct their own investigation of Garner’s July 17 death as officers were attempting to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. The New York Police Department also is doing an internal probe which could lead to administrative charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who remains on desk duty.

The grand jury’s decision prompted emotional protests around New York and in cities from Atlanta to California.

In Manhattan, demonstrators lay down in Grand Central Terminal, walked through traffic on the West Side Highway and blocked the Brooklyn Bridge. A City Council member cried. Hundreds converged on the heavily secured area around the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting with a combination of professional-looking signs and hand-scrawled placards reading, “Black lives matter” and “Fellow white people, wake up.” And in the Staten Island neighbourhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted, “I can’t breathe!” and “Hands up — don’t choke!”

New York City police said early Thursday that more than 60 people were arrested, most for disorderly conduct.

“This fight ain’t over, it just begun,” said Garner’s widow Esaw.

But the demonstrations were largely peaceful, in contrast to the widespread arson and looting that accompanied the decision nine days earlier not to indict the officer in Brown’s death.

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges, but unlike the chief prosecutor in the Ferguson case, he gave no details on the grand jury testimony. The district attorney said he will seek to have information on the investigation released.

In order to find Pantaleo criminally negligent, the grand jury would have had to determine he knew there was a “substantial risk” that Garner would have died. Pataleo’s lawyer and union officials argued that the grand jury got it right, saying he used an authorized takedown move — not a banned chokehold — and that Garner’s poor health was the main cause of his death.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has led protests over the custody death of Garner and the police shooting of Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, said the New York decision is yet another reason he has lost confidence in state grand juries and local prosecutors to bring such cases.

“State grand juries tend to be too compromised with local politics because local prosecutors run for office and they have to depend on the police for evidence,” he said. “Don’t we have the right to question grand juries when we’re looking at a video and seeing things that don’t make sense?”

The video shot by an onlooker showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him. Pantaleo responded by wrapping his arm around Garner’s neck in what appeared to be a chokehold.

The heavyset father of six, who had asthma, was heard repeatedly gasping, “I can’t breathe!” He later died at a hospital.

The medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it. A forensic pathologist hired by Garner’s family agreed with those findings, saying there was hemorrhaging on Garner’s neck indicative of neck compressions.

Columbia’s Fagan said another factor was that the Staten Island grand jury came from the most conservative and least racially diverse of the city’s five boroughs, and home to many current and retired police officers and their families.

“Staten Island is a very different borough,” he said. “In fact, it may be closer to suburban St. Louis, and we can’t discount that.”

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[Reddog]

The USA is facing an inevitable disintegration. Racial. Whites on one side and coloured people on the other. Now you know whites are mostly in favour of gun ownerships.

While using democracy and human rights as handy tools to destabilise their enemies, USA, UK and xtian western countries are themselves guilty of the same at home.

 

[yellowarse]

While using democracy and human rights as handy tools to destabilise their enemies, USA, UK and xtian western countries are themselves guilty of the same at home.

Well said. Democracy and human rights are just a thin evangelical cover to remove non-allied regimes, destabilize political and economic rivals, and to gain access to resources for the US and her allies.

"When you point a finger at someone else, three fingers at pointing back at you."

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

those white people that support the blacks are just ignorant like those white Sth Africans that support Communist terrorist, Nelson Mandela...........

the more blacks die or imprisoned.................the better........the less trouble for the world.......a real boon to the world............

 

[McDonaldsKid]

#icantbreathe

 

[yellowarse]

the more blacks die or imprisoned.................the better........the less trouble for the world.......a real boon to the world............

Disagree. The American black community may have higher crime and poverty rates, but they don't start wars in other countries, overthrow regimes not to their liking, fund terrorist groups, and manipulate the world's economic system like the whites and Jews. They are also generally not involved in international terrorism, which is the domain of the Israelis and Arabs and fundamentalist religious groups.

How much trouble do they pose to the world?

 

[McDonaldsKid]

Disagree. The American black community may have higher crime and poverty rates, but they don't start wars in other countries, overthrow regimes not to their liking, fund terrorist groups, and manipulate the world's economic system like the whites and Jews. They are also generally not involved in international terrorism, which is the domain of the Israelis and Arabs and fundamentalist religious groups.How much trouble do they pose to the world?

They don't. One of the reasons they are stuck in a vicious cycle in America is the blatant racism against them.

 

[Equalisation]

Yes. Such a chokehold can be fatal.

I have witnessed such a chokehold during the Japanese Occupation. There was once, a kempetei officer who came to our village to search for a rebel guerrilla. He found her and gave her the same chokehold. I came to her rescue (but to no avail) by pushing them into a nearby pond filled with green moss. The pirahnas did the rest.:o

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Yes. Such a chokehold can be fatal.

I have witnessed such a chokehold during the Japanese Occupation. There was once, a kempetei officer who came to our village to search for a rebel guerrilla. He found her and gave her the same chokehold. I came to her rescue (but to no avail) by pushing them into a nearby pond filled with green moss. The pirahnas did the rest.:o

u are really Real Goodman ( i like )

 

[yellowarse]

I have witnessed such a chokehold during the Japanese Occupation. There was once, a kempetei officer who came to our village to search for a rebel guerrilla. He found her and gave her the same chokehold. I came to her rescue (but to no avail) by pushing them into a nearby pond filled with green moss. The pirahnas did the rest.:o

Do piranhas like black meat?

 

[Leongsam]

Disagree. The American black community may have higher crime and poverty rates, but they don't start wars in other countries, overthrow regimes not to their liking, fund terrorist groups, and manipulate the world's economic system like the whites and Jews. They are also generally not involved in international terrorism, which is the domain of the Israelis and Arabs and fundamentalist religious groups.

How much trouble do they pose to the world?

That's only because they're too damned stupid to have any impact on anything beyond their crime ridden neighborhoods.

 

[syed putra]

That's only because they're too damned stupid to have any impact on anything beyond their crime ridden neighborhoods.

Not in the music industry and entertainment industry. Their effect is worldwide recognition. they can do this even if their are blind.

 

[voucher]

The chokehold is police max restraint US style. They should learn max restraint Sinkie style.

 

[yellowarse]

That's only because they're too damned stupid to have any impact on anything beyond their crime ridden neighborhoods.

Ever heard of Michael Jordan?

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Yes. Such a chokehold can be fatal.

I have witnessed such a chokehold during the Japanese Occupation. There was once, a kempetei officer who came to our village to search for a rebel guerrilla. He found her and gave her the same chokehold. I came to her rescue (but to no avail) by pushing them into a nearby pond filled with green moss. The pirahnas did the rest.:o

S'pore got pirahnas meh.............I bet the Jap gave the woman a boobhold...........

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Ever heard of Michael Jordan?

apart from sports and entertainment...............what else blacks have done ?

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Disagree. The American black community may have higher crime and poverty rates, but they don't start wars in other countries, overthrow regimes not to their liking, fund terrorist groups, and manipulate the world's economic system like the whites and Jews. They are also generally not involved in international terrorism, which is the domain of the Israelis and Arabs and fundamentalist religious groups.

How much trouble do they pose to the world?

if blacks are running powerful countries............world gone haywire long ago liao.........even South Africa which was so awesome under the White Afrikaaners........now the country has turned to shit.........