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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
It was ruled a HOMICIDE by the medical examiner.
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It was only a homicide (which may or not be a crime) because of the underlying health issues. Look at the video. The take-down hold did not restrict Garner's breathing or arterial blood flow. There is no way the police action would have resulted in the death of a healthy human being. True, Garner probably would not have died that day if he had not resisted arrest, but that does not make the police action a crime, and there is no way in the world a jury will ever convict any of the police of committing one.
In fact, when Garner said "I can't breathe", he obviously was breathing or he couldn't have spoken. Garner, a career criminal, resisted arrest, and the police used reasonable force to make the arrest. A grand jury looked at the matter and confirmed this interpretation by finding no probable cause that the police committed a crime. The media, by describing Garner as a "chokehold victim", turned a lowlife into a martyr-- as the media did with Trayvon Martin and Eric Brown.