NYPD COPS: Chokehold didn’t kill Eric Garner, ‘Anti-Police Rhetoric’ caused his death

By Matt Agorist on August 9, 2014

August 9, 2014

Leaders of two police unions had some strong words Tuesday over what they are calling anti-police rhetoric in the wake of the death of Eric Garner last month.

After watching this press conference one is left wondering, are these cops or is this central casting for the next mafioso blockbuster?

James Cole:

August 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM

The police murdered Eric Garner. The officers who killed him should be charged, jailed and sent to trial. Eric Garner repeatedly said he could not breathe. They killed him. Actions like this is why there is no respect for the NYPD. I will believe there are good cops when they start arresting some bad ones. I'm no Al Sharpton fan, but this time he is right. This video proves you sir are a lair.

Liam Bean:
August 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM
When any group of people are above the law, no one has justice.
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 9, 2014 at 7:03 PM
The Blue line is turning into one in the sand that we need to cross soon..
Christopher J Helwig:
August 9, 2014 at 7:17 PM
They murdered him... If so many individuals actually resist arrest more police officers would die. Eric Garner had his hand out the entire time.
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM
Anyone else notice that there was a token black guy in the background to make a note that they are not racist? If aa Politician is Opposing this than OFFICERS need to listen.. not claim that they are ALSO the problem.

YOU OFFICERS GO OUT ON THE STREET TO BE ALPHA MALES .. No reguard of Color, just Fuck You Comply or Die.. I do not agree with Al Sharpton often, but here I do. This Speaker needs to be fired by the mayor. You do not need to know this guy was fat. You cannot breath when your fat and have 6 men on you...no MEDICAL DEGREE REQUIRED.. When a person is Needing to arrested then yes, you arrest them any way needed without loss of life. The LAW of Selling Loosies needs to be killed. This is NOT a crime. The need to arrest this guy was not necessary.. THIS WAS A CHOKE HOLD! THIS WAS A CHOKE HOLD... let me make this clear, THIS WAS A CHOKE HOLD.... ok. Need to Duke this out in the street... By the Millions..
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 9, 2014 at 8:05 PM
http://time.com/3016326/eric-garner-video-police-chokehold-death/
Neal Feldman:
August 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM
Jeremy Brosnan

I noticed it immediately.
Michael Sullivan:
August 10, 2014 at 2:22 AM
Jeremy Brosnan I don't know if I believe that all cops are racist, but, to me, it doesn't matter. In my opinion, violating someone's rights is wrong whether they're blue, black, purple, or white. However, they also violate enough white people's rights that even racist should be up in arms.
Michael Sullivan:
August 10, 2014 at 2:25 AM
Liam Bean yeah, and you know what, I think this is a major factor in us getting to this point. Cops have gotten away with violating people's rights in the street, lying in court, breaking the law off duty and on, and many other things for so long they're just absolutely out of control now.
Christopher J Helwig:
August 10, 2014 at 3:04 AM
There is one more thing I need to add to this, while I believe the cops here didn't intentionally kill this one they did display unreasonable force on someone who obviously wasn't fighting back. I am sick of cops using examples of "other time occurrences" as justification when they are brutal in action. Fact is, each case is unique, there is no cut and dry way to deal with every situation, period, end of discussion, that is just the way it is.

Also this whole Judges making examples out of people to put fear into the population as a whole has to stop. I don't want cops subjugated to the same treatment law has been treating its citizens with lately but maybe that is what police need because to many are not using their heads and think that they can get away with anything. Individual actions from some cops will be responsible for the citizen brutality that will come against all cops someday if they don't start checking themselves and if the law doesn't treat them the same as average citizens. THE POLICE ARE NOT TO BE ABOVE THE LAW! The police are there to enforce laws not break them to enforce them... Seriously think about it. People who break laws will break laws regardless of what laws are on the book. The only thing police, law, judges can really do is enforce the logical laws without breaking them because when law enforcement breaks laws it creates contempt and citizens will eventually revolt. ITS HISTORY, IT HAS HAPPENED ALREADY PLENTY OF TIMES! Start using your brains on both sides or you will all start fucking each other, which I don't think anyone really wants. The police act in fear which in turn will cause citizens to react in fear. Both could sit down civil in a bar together but will kill each other in the streets over nothing really. FEAR doesn't exist it is a figment of our imaginations. Stop fearing everything!
Ian Unitt:
August 10, 2014 at 5:27 AM
my main issue is the argument that he said many times he couldn't breathe. if you are not able to breathe you are not able to speak and thats just a fact.
Nate Travitzky:
August 10, 2014 at 8:19 AM
Nothing willl happen to these scumbags. At most paid suspension...They are above the law and masquerading under the guise of protecting and serving. Regardless of logic or facts these criminal are so numerous, so firmly rooted into our society, and surrounded by walls of bureaucratic complacency, there's no chance for evidence or truth to make a difference because they control it.
Ian Unitt:
August 10, 2014 at 8:33 AM
Justin Greenleaf lol that doesn't mean him not being able to breath while clearly talking with air in his lungs is true. sorry buddy but thats not how our bodies work.
Ian Unitt:
August 10, 2014 at 9:06 AM
Justin Greenleaf it's science buddy. tell someone to choke you to the point where you cannot breath and try to say that you can't breath. you physically cannot do that. laughable you don't understand how that works.
Christopher J Helwig:
August 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM
Ian Unitt He likely had enough adrenalin pumping to take on every one of those cops but instead decided to submit. Since he had the adrenalin pumping and could not move he likely died because of that and the fact he was overweight didn't help his situation. I know because when I get an major adrenalin rush I am good as long as I am actively moving, time slows down, I feel no pain, and I get stupid strong for my bodies size. However, when I suppress that feeling I quickly either have to cry and even then sometimes I go into a panic attack and am unable to properly breath. I'm 5'7 250lbs and I would likely die as well if they held me down simply because Id have to much adrenalin pumping and my body likely wouldn't be able to handle not using it.
James Cole:
August 10, 2014 at 11:04 AM
Ian Unitt It's a lot easier to say I can't breathe when being chocked to death, than I am having difficultly breathing.
James Cole:
August 10, 2014 at 11:09 AM
Nate Travitzky I wouldn't say "nothing" will happen to the scumbags. If I was one of the asshole cops who killed Eric Garner knowing just how many people have watched me do it, I would never show my face in public again in fear of what could happen to me.
Toby Brace:
August 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM
What utter bullshit. Every word that Union guy said was true. Stupid little shits like you don't deserve police protection.
James Cole:
August 10, 2014 at 12:24 PM
Toby Brace The last thing I want is police protection from thugs like these guys.
Justin E. Lane:
August 10, 2014 at 12:46 PM
Liam Bean. Yes! I don't understand why so many people find that hard to grasp.
Josh Williard:
August 10, 2014 at 1:37 PM
Justin Greenleaf A community college engineering student apparently, which amounts to little more than a middle schooler with legos.

In any case, when you are being choked you can get words out. You can usually get air OUT, just not IN. Source: Have been choked and have choked.
Ian Unitt:
August 10, 2014 at 5:35 PM
Justin Greenleaf not sure what being an engi student has to do with literally anything at all in this argument. there is plenty of science and fact in what i have said yet you blow it off because you apparently with all your fine education never learned very simplistic things about the human body. if you do not have the ability to breath you do not have the ability to speak. if this is going over your head still i think you need to think hard about all that money you are spending on an education because it has fucking failed you. not being able to ask him isn't even relevant because all the facts are out there regardless. death was ruled via asphyxia not from an arm around his throat however but by his own fat and officers being on top of him slowly compressing the lungs. the fact still stands with my original point. if you can speak you are still taking air in and out of your lungs and thus you can in fact breath. you are not a smart person so don't act like being some engi student means shit when you can't grasp simple grade school concepts kiddo.
Derrick McCallum:
August 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM
fuck you..we have the right to live even if it means kill you fucking cops....fuck the police and i will kill one of you bitches if you touch me........once again fuck the police....
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 10, 2014 at 8:20 PM
Neal Feldman 25.5% of the NYC population is black, yet that group right there that run that show... 95% white
Juju Mess:
August 11, 2014 at 1:09 AM
What are you stupid? That dude was a walking heart attack. Count the seconds the officer had his arms around his neck not even 10 seconds. He was just a unhealthy dude
Terry Robotham:
August 14, 2014 at 3:06 PM
Yes the Police Officers in this situation caused Mr. Garner's death. However the problem could have been avoided if Mr. Garner did not resist arrest and did not engage in regular criminal activity. The bigger problem is that people in general do not know how to exercise their rights or that they should cooperate with police officers to secure their own safety. Mr. Garner resisted and refused orders from the police... so what should the police have done? Walk away? No the police should have done their jobs and followed the rules.

Jeremy Speece:

August 9, 2014 at 1:50 PM

this entire video is police trying to cover there asses for murder.

Ray Sargent:
August 9, 2014 at 8:30 PM
What I take from this is that they realized that the support that they expected is not there. It makes me think that an indictment is going to be published in the near future. Just more spin.
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 9, 2014 at 9:18 PM
Ray Sargent this is not 40 years ago, people wont put up with this shit no more. indictment asap, or no rest.
Neal Feldman:
August 10, 2014 at 12:47 AM
Jeremy Brosnan

No Justice, No Peace!
Juju Mess:
August 11, 2014 at 1:11 AM
Murder? Garner was a walking heart attack waiting how much crime has he not done with his rap sheet? Compared to the actual law abiding citizens the actually work to make a living
Nick Johnson:
August 11, 2014 at 2:56 PM
Their* learn English before responding. Thanks
Neal Feldman:
August 11, 2014 at 8:07 PM
Juju Mess

So in your opinion the cops can murder anyone that is overweight?

You are what is wrong in this country.
Jeremy Brosnan:
August 19, 2014 at 8:22 PM
Juju Mess He would be alive today if he never saw a cop.. IMO, it was murder.
Neal Feldman:
August 19, 2014 at 11:13 PM
Jeremy Brosnan

Mine as well.
Jeremy Speece:
August 21, 2014 at 5:33 PM
Juju Mess well if you think something as simple as selling some smokes makes you a criminal then i don't want to be A law abiding citizen and don't give me that crap that he was a walking heart attack I was born with a serious heart condition and i'm not about to up and die.

David Becken:

August 9, 2014 at 3:52 PM

There is nothing to respect. Cops scream 'stop resisting' when people are cuffed and motionless on the ground, and everyone knows it. This mobster has done nothing but further destroy his department's reputation. You had a cop who used a banned choke-hold and your EMS worker didn't do one thing to help the murdered man who the police killed. If the murdered man had been a killer or even an armed robber, there may be some sympathy for you and your goons, However, he was suspected of selling individual cigarettes, and that isn't even proven. The fact that he wasn't murdered the first few times is a credit to your department, but I guess the temptation finally became too much for them. What a pack of liars.

David Becken:
August 9, 2014 at 3:56 PM
Aside from 9-11, how many NYPD members have been killed in the line of duty in the past 20 years?
Elliot Szabo:
August 9, 2014 at 5:02 PM
David Becken 47 if you don't include 9/11 related illness deaths, and 23 if you don't include 9/11
David Mineau:
August 9, 2014 at 5:18 PM
Not enough!!!!!
Scott Fraley:
August 9, 2014 at 6:10 PM
Elliot Szabo Wow... 23. Terrifying. No wonder they need tanks.
Luidgi King:
August 9, 2014 at 8:54 PM
Elliot Szabo thats wrong look at this http://www.wnyc.org/story/175949-chart-patterns-police-deaths-job-1980-2010/
B.j. Higgs:
August 9, 2014 at 9:13 PM
David Mineau . A better question would be: How many citizens has the NYPD killed in the past 20 years.
Lezah Marrs:
August 9, 2014 at 9:43 PM
David Becken Not enough!
B.j. Higgs:
August 9, 2014 at 9:46 PM
Over 5,000 civilians since 9/11have been killed by police. That, I think, was a number from last year.
Elliot Szabo:
August 10, 2014 at 3:51 PM
B.j. Higgs 19 by gunfire
Elliot Szabo:
August 10, 2014 at 3:52 PM
Luidgi King Here's where I got my numbers. http://www.odmp.org/agency/2758-new-york-city-police-department-new-york I didn't count accidental, illness or 9/11 related deaths.
Gregg Aarons:
August 10, 2014 at 6:20 PM
Elliot Szabo IF YOU AGREE W PAT LYNCH U NEED HELP. a lot of the nypd are lowlife pigs.
Eric Goempel:
August 11, 2014 at 1:18 AM
David Becken how many people have the NYPD killed in 20 years?
David Becken:
August 11, 2014 at 1:22 AM
Eric Goempel I'm having a hard time pinning down numbers Eric, but from your comment, I think you believe I am on the cop side of the argument, which I am not, as evidenced in my comment above that question I asked.
Monkie Bader:
August 11, 2014 at 3:15 AM
it was proven that he was selling individual cigs not only that he was warned not to numerous times before that. Unless you people are retarded he was also still breathing when put in ambulance by EMT's so if anyone killed him it was the paramedics. You people only hear what you want and make decisions from what shit talking sites like this tell you like complete fucking tools. I'm a criminal myself so dont think im pro-police but i am anti-retardedness like this site constantly puts out just for the sake of starting shit.
Jana Rose:
August 11, 2014 at 3:10 PM
Gosh, well said.

Robert Sobik:

August 9, 2014 at 3:37 PM

He just tried to bedazzle us with B.S but came across more disturbing than ever.

General BS:
August 10, 2014 at 8:09 AM
Even BS is baffled at what happened
Alexander Vucelic:
August 10, 2014 at 2:42 PM
it is worthwhile to watch entire press conference. illuminating to realize how out of touch the cop unions are. they are simply clueless

Paul Waldeck:

August 9, 2014 at 3:41 PM

Seems as if they are declaring war on the public. Since when does selling a cigarette carry a death sentence. Maybe the guy was selling it at cost.

Craig Washington:
August 9, 2014 at 4:20 PM
cant sell nothing in this country without a license
Kory Smith:
August 9, 2014 at 4:23 PM
Craig Washington no kidding i think that should change . its all about people that dont care about others making laws to keep people poor . i think its total bs
Aurelia Bethea:
August 9, 2014 at 5:01 PM
Craig Washington They want their taxes.
Craig Washington:
August 9, 2014 at 5:04 PM
Aurelia Bethea exactly...if the government cant make money off it they don't want it there, even if its small lemonade stand ran by a child
Jeremy Speece:
August 9, 2014 at 7:06 PM
sometimes I wonder if our police knows we live in a capitalism.
Aurelia Bethea:
August 9, 2014 at 7:10 PM
Jeremy Speece ? Wait, I think I know what you are saying. They're enforcing these 'laws' but have no idea why something so personal would be cause for arrest. We could liken this with prostitution being illegal...You can give away all you want but don't sell it.
Jeremy Speece:
August 9, 2014 at 7:34 PM
Aurelia Bethea well yea exactly but what i was trying to say is capitalism is a system of free trade and that is what our nation was founded on why would you need a permit to trade when its free trade.
Kory Smith:
August 9, 2014 at 8:57 PM
Aurelia Bethea u should be able to make money how ever you want unless it hurts someone thats where the line should be drawn . we should be able to do whatever we want to do to are own body . but since are government can make money off putting people in prison guess what only makes since to make everything illegal just like in judge dread ........
Juju Mess:
August 11, 2014 at 1:13 AM
All you mother fuckers are criminal supporters fuck you all! The guy never worked a day in his life and has over 30 arrest he was a walking heart attack
Timothy J. Wallet:
August 11, 2014 at 1:19 AM
^^wants to be a future cop.
Kory Smith:
August 11, 2014 at 1:34 AM
Timothy J. Wallet no kidding
Kory Smith:
August 11, 2014 at 1:38 AM
Juju Mess if you speak this way of a man just because he had medical condition he should be dead and just because he had 30 arrests for stupid stuff like selling cigs on the corner ? i think your a pos for even coming onto this post and if your a cop your a bad cop and dont worry when the people have had enough your city will riot first cupcake due to people like you that dont care about people just care about a paycheck .
Monkie Bader:
August 11, 2014 at 3:17 AM
Craig Washington lemonade stands arent illegal remarks like that are just retarded
Monkie Bader:
August 11, 2014 at 3:18 AM
Kory Smith it was proven that he was selling individual cigs not only that he was warned not to numerous times before that. Unless you people are retarded he was also still breathing when put in ambulance by EMT's so if anyone killed him it was the paramedics. You people only hear what you want and make decisions from what shit talking sites like this tell you like complete fucking tools. I'm a criminal myself so dont think im pro-police but i am anti-retardedness like this site constantly puts out just for the sake of starting shit.
Paul Waldeck:
August 11, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Monkie Bader You obviously have been in prison awhile because in some places you can not have a lemonade stand without a permit. the point of the site is how our freedoms are being taken away. Selling loose cigs a crime is ridiculous as is a permit for a kid to have a lemonade stand.
Dean Honore:
August 15, 2014 at 2:55 AM
They have declared war on human life a long time ago. People are just now seeing more of it for not speaking up and the media for not covering it.

Karen Jensen-conn:

August 9, 2014 at 3:41 PM

well I heard blaw blaw blaw because we all seen what they really did!!!

Jeremiah Willis:
August 9, 2014 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, his "facts" didn't match the video at all.
Monkie Bader:
August 11, 2014 at 3:19 AM
u saw bits and pieces of what happened not all of what happened
Jeremiah Willis:
August 11, 2014 at 4:24 AM
Monkie Bader I saw an uncut video, where a chicken shit little cop, who was obviously to scared to do his job right, waited on back up, then without telling the man he was under arrest, started grabbing, then jump on him, once they had enough cops for a proper squash pile, one little piggy still feeling the need to use an illegal " love hold " around the neck. What happened to put your hands behind your back, none of that, and this is becoming the norm, lets just attack. Well this time it killed the a man. These cops didn't want to take him in peacefully, they wanted garner in jail, so they made sure he was gonna get a resisting arrest charge regardless, and that cost a bit more to bond out on. If these cops aren't responsible for Garners death, who is? And don't say Garners fault because he shouldn't of been selling cigarettes, that's insane, and not a crime worthy of being attacked for. Even if Garner wouldn't have died, this would still be a disgusting and brutal incident.
Monkie Bader:
August 13, 2014 at 11:57 PM
Jeremiah Willis I reckon it would have to be the EMT's then seeing as he was still breathing when they got him into the ambulance. Oh and Im highly skeptical u saw an "uncut" video unless u knew the dude that was recording at the time. You saw what u were told was an uncut video. I say make the cops wear those little cams that some police stations are making mandatory an boom problem solved. In all seriousness this tragedy was more than likely the fault of all parties involved both the police and the guy himself because obviously if you've been arrested 8 times already for the same offence at the same location he was obviously a piece of shit that was looking for trouble because if not he would have relocated after the first time. Dude wanted to pick a fight, cops used inappropriate tactics to get him under control. So its a draw they each cancel each other out since they were both in the wrong......move on.

Nuno Miguel:

August 9, 2014 at 4:17 PM

Abolish police unions...of criminals, by criminals, for criminals!!! :poop:

Ken Pederson:
August 9, 2014 at 8:38 PM
I agree 100% !! The unions are nothing but accomplices. They won't protect a honest cop that crosses "the blue line" & reports a bad cop!! ( Did you notice how fast he back pedaled when asked about cops wearing body cameras !!! )
Brian Miller:
August 9, 2014 at 9:01 PM
this! the unions are the biggest problem! fuck this fucking douchebag piece of shit talking into the mic.

I honestly never watched the eric garner arrest, don't know enough about it to really take a side either way, but I do know for sure that this fuckin idiot on the mic is a slimy parasite that has done more to hurt the citizens of NY than 99.99999% of the people they've arrested

Robert Sobik:

August 9, 2014 at 3:43 PM

Did he just really say that was not a choke hold? The video shows otherwise. Just like the black man that was run over in Deland Florida by a cop. The medical result was being ran over did not kill the man but a car parked on top of the man caused the death. WTF!! I cant watch this anymore.

David Mineau:
August 9, 2014 at 5:27 PM
Hey Robert Sobik, lets keep the color card out of it,Ok? I am white and have to see and live the same bullshit as anyone else! Criminal behavior knows no color or race, and I think we agree that these thugs with badges are the problem for anyone not born with a silver spoon in their mouth!! I would fight by your side for a common cause regardless...! If you can same the same with honest conviction, then I call you my brother!!
Stephanie Demos:
August 9, 2014 at 6:47 PM
David Mineau no, you don't live the same bullshit by police as black and brown people . check yourself, after checking the evidence
Robert Sobik:
August 9, 2014 at 8:09 PM
lol David Mineau I never threw the color card into it. I said the black man. Not the man was run over because he was black. big difference.
Jeffrey Lewis:
August 9, 2014 at 11:26 PM
I almost chimed in a couple hours ago, to add that I did NOT find David.M was playing the race card, and he had made only one mention of 'black', which was entirely relevant. My sense then was (and still is) that Robert.S misread David.M.

The point of racial profiling and police abuse of power being disparate against blacks (and Hispanics, Native Americans, etc.) is beyond dispute. But let's all stay together and focused on the real problem: any pig who is a thug and likes to mug and even kill needs to be brought to account. We ALL suffer when these assholes do what they continue to do.
Byron Keith Williams:
August 12, 2014 at 2:46 AM
David, it's hard to keep race out of it when black males are dying at the hands of police and not just this incident . A lack father of two young kids was gunned down inside a walmart for looking to buy a toy gun, and the black kid in Missouri who had no weapon and was gunned down for walking in the street. Tell the police to stop killing innocent black men and then we have nothing to talk about
Fonzell Leaguer Bevans:
August 12, 2014 at 10:46 PM
i understand what ur saying but how any cases of white cops killing white ppl have u heard of in the past yr..???????? David Mineau. and I like that @Bryon

Wade Dewell:

August 9, 2014 at 4:06 PM

In this era of political corruption and police brutality, only open armed resistance will prevail. The mind set of the empowered is not upon citizens rights and well being. They have proved that time and time again. They are willing to shoot and kill innocent people, we should be as well. A cop takes an innocent life, a bounty should be issued, and he should be publicly executed. People put down bad dogs all over the world. Stand up. Arm yourselves. Meet no knock raids with automatic weapons fire. Riot troops should be surrounded and subdued using any means possible. This is America people. We are free Americans! START ACTING LIKE IT!!!!

Willy NoPipelines Whompa:

August 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM

These douchebags should be stripped of duty and also lay a smack down on these goofs. Parasites like this should be locked up. Of course they will stick up for their other gang members and how they treat us civilians. Wouldn't cry a tear if someone choked out these fools.

Robert Sobik:
August 9, 2014 at 4:13 PM
How can you cry a tear when they would do the same to your father or mother.

Matthew Lins:

August 9, 2014 at 4:16 PM

He lost all credibility when he claimed it was "NOT" a choke hold. Well if that wasn't a choke hold, wtf was that?

Jeffrey Lewis:
August 9, 2014 at 8:08 PM
...he lost all credibility when he went to his job that morning. Disgrace. Glad he is not my dad, husband, or kid?

Joe Corbett:

August 9, 2014 at 4:30 PM

The look on their faces is terrorizing. The same defiant faces witnessed at the Nuremberg trails.

Glyce Eraine:
August 9, 2014 at 6:18 PM
EXACTLY! That's what I was thinking! We watched some docs about that stuff recently, and all I thought about was that! So glad I'm not the only one.
Cindy Appel:
August 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM
Glyce Eraine can you recommend the doc, I'd like to see it. Thanks

Tammy Cyr:

August 9, 2014 at 4:18 PM

I love how he sounds like he is scolding us. Very telling about how they really feel.

Tammy Cyr:
August 10, 2014 at 2:02 PM
How about the part where he says there is a lack of respect for the police because of the way they are being portrayed by race baiters, politicians, pundits, and even our elected officials.I wasn't sure what pundit meant, so I looked it up. It means a person who is an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public. So Everyone is wrong, including the pundits. It's the cops who are right. Yup.

Kimmie Hart:

August 9, 2014 at 4:56 PM

It is unlawful to charge someone with resisting arrest as a solo charge. Without a supporting charge, it is harassment. A citizen has the right to defend themselves against an unlawful arrest. Police officers need to be hyper vigilant in the way they conduct themselves - they need to realize that we are not all criminals and roadside trial and execution is not a function of a civilized society. When police officers start treating people, even criminals, like human beings, with family, just like them, rather than the enemy, we might see an improvement. The people are tired. We are tired that the often trivial actions by humans are criminalized and lives derailed for nothing, while corporations can get away with untold destruction and walk away with more money and no prosecution. WE ARE TIRED! The speaker wants to know what are they supposed to do when a citizen says no. Well, the goddam answer sure as hell is not in the street executions by the police department. And since when is trial and conviction by press conference become part of the judicial system? Is that going to be part of American justice? Police officers should be part of keeping the the social safety net functioning, but they are often the ones who serve to cut people off the net when they are barely hanging on... http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm

Jeffrey Lewis:
August 9, 2014 at 8:19 PM
Great Post!

Christina Chornomud:

August 9, 2014 at 4:28 PM

this is a sack of horseshit... seriously...? lets just pretend he's a 100% guilty of selling untaxed cigarettes... a death sentence??? really? i know he wasn't submitting but there were several officers there that could have subdued him peacefully without murdering him... this saddens and enrages me

Bryan Bobby Mccawley:

August 9, 2014 at 4:14 PM

how the hell are they going to try and push the blame to other reason why Garner died? The medical examiner even said the chokehold was the cause of death meaning that the police officer killed him and should face trial. If this was a regular person that put Garner in a chokehold and killed him the police would arrest us for murder. This is complete bs and I feel that if the police officers involved don't go on trial and convicted there will be riots

Kristen Adkins:

August 9, 2014 at 4:11 PM

How come they never mention the fact that Eric Garner was trying to do the right thing and broke up a fight right before the cops got there, and that's what got their attention in the 1st place?

Ryan Soldan:
August 9, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Because that would go against the lies his officers told ,that they seen him selling single cigs.
Kristen Adkins:
August 9, 2014 at 5:12 PM
Ryan Soldan Exactly

Donald Acevedo:

August 9, 2014 at 4:26 PM

You want respect ?? Then STOP beating people the fuck up when they are already handcuffed you fuckin Jackass !!

Robert Sobik:

August 9, 2014 at 3:34 PM

They look and dress more like the Mafia. Just saying the police profile because it works.

Michael Edwards:

August 9, 2014 at 5:14 PM

That "attitude" you speak of sir is due to the fact that police officers abuse their power without fear of consequences, as well as the lack of remorse or empathy for taking people's lives (and dogs!), and also the militarization of the police, and especially the profitization of the justice system, you greedy piece of garbage.

The day I went to jail for a crime I obviously did not commit was the day my eyes were opened.

I don't believe in hell, but people like this guy makes me hope there is one.

Wesman Todd Shaw:

August 9, 2014 at 4:13 PM

I want the DEATH PENALTY, or LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE for every officer involved, including this terrorist piece of human shit police chief.

Kory Smith:

August 9, 2014 at 4:21 PM

how can you respect someone that has no respect for you . send a message all you want keep going people will take it on themselves to solve the problems .... murder is a serious crime too . how do you get arrested for resisting arrest as your ONLY CHARGE. lol when your a bad cop you shouldn't expect to go home safe every day . you all are thugs NYPD are the worst officers . way to blame it on the people you guys harass and bully. i guess you should have officers that care for people .

Kory Smith:
August 9, 2014 at 4:32 PM
nation of laws yeah no kidding people get put in office that have nothing better to do then wright law after law after law thats one of the problems with the US right now . its funny how cops will defend themselves no matter what but if the people cry foul oh somethings wrong with the people . one of the problems with this country now is we are not free people and lots of bullys are cops. tell the problem is solved in are government and with cops we wont be free., and dont get me started on them saying go to court and duke it out ? oh so now courts are fair too lol DA's are the worst all of them need to be fired and rules put on them what they can and cant do .

Phil Throbbin Hood Perrier:

August 9, 2014 at 4:26 PM

Who says Police officers deserve the right to go home safely.... when is safety for a first responder supercede the right of a free travelling citizen, to get home safely. This is one of the greatest displays of how our society is over-policed. this pc is riddles with lies

Karl Adhihetty:
August 9, 2014 at 7:26 PM
Totally agree Phil! The lie is totally on view for us all to see in the recent Video showing the killing of an innocent man by NY police and the one yesterday of the 80 year old lady being thrown to the pavement by police! Law Enforcement should not be defending these actions they should be accepting responsibility for these mistakes and vow to avoid them in future!

Craig Washington:

August 9, 2014 at 4:27 PM

he lost me at "build a bond with the police an the community that we serve an protect everyday"...i want to send all the police brutality compilations from NY from youtube an have him answer to that

Al Zdenek:

August 9, 2014 at 4:22 PM

Scumbags like this are precisely why people don't like cops

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