the-real-seebs: langsettte: dglsplsblg: Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts him in chokehold
the-real-seebs:langsettte:dglsplsblg:Staten Island man dies after NYPD cop puts him in chokehold — SEE THE VIDEOA 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows.“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, repeatedly screamed after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he balked at being handcuffed.Within moments Garner, a married father of six children with two grandchildren, stopped struggling and appeared to be unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene. An angry crowd gathered, some recording with smartphones.“When I kissed my husband this morning, I never thought it would be for the last time,” Garner’s wife, Esaw, told the Daily News.She got no details from police until after she had gone to the hospital to identify his body, she said.“I saw him with his eyes wide open and I said, ‘Babe, don’t leave me, I need you.’ But he was already gone,” she said.and people wonder why black people don’t trust or have any love for cops. they murdered this man. this black man. and for what? fucking cigarettes. yea, WE’RE the fucking problem. this is so heartbreaking fuck the five o The same source has a followup story.Two cops have been moved to desk duty pending investigation. The reporting is pretty solidly on the “what the hell are the cops doing” side of the issue:But a video captured Garner’s desperate pleas for help as one cop shoved his head into the sidewalk and three others pinned him down — while a fifth cop put him in handcuffs.“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” he shouted in vain. By the video’s end, Garner was lying motionless on the sidewalk as cops chased eyewitnesses away.There’s word choices (“in vain” and “as cops chased eyewitnesses away”) which are pretty solid indications of where the newspaper thinks public opinion ought to be on this one. -- source link
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