Staten Island grand jury – let’s take race out of it: what would YOU do as a cop?

In background, from the NYDailyNews.com:

NYPD officer in Eric Garner chokehold death not indicted by Staten Island grand jury 

by Tina Moore, Thomas Tracy, Rocco Parascandola, Corky Siemaszko

Eric Garner’s widow reacted with shock and dismay Wednesday after a Staten Island grand jury chose not to indict the NYPD officer who killed her husband with a chokehold.

“Oh my God, are you serious?” Esaw Garner, her voice rising in shock and anger, told The Daily News. “I’m very disappointed. You can see in the video that he (the cop) was dead wrong!”

Garner was referring to the shocking cellphone video first published on NYDailyNews.com that showed Officer Daniel Pantaleo placing Garner in a chokehold — a move banned by the NYPD — and wrestling him to the ground.

Background: NYPD came into the neighborhood in order to identify and arrest persons selling black market cigarettes — called “loosies,” because they are sold individually by persons who don’t charge the ridiculous taxes that area businesses must charge.  Therefore, the local businesses asked NYPD to come in and clean up the illegal activity.  They said it was unfair that individuals were undercutting brick-and-mortar neighborhood businesses who were required to collect NY and state taxes on cigarettes.

In other words, the businesses were asking the NYPD to stop crimes from being committed in their area.

The NYPD showed up, and you can see what occurred in the video above.  NYPD was tasked with making an arrest.  When a man who is clearly much larger than any of the four officers in the scene resists, the officers react.

You are now one of those NYPD officers.  What do you do when a man the size of Garner resists?  Take race out of it.  Do you let him push you aside?  Do you call for even more officers?  Do you draw even more attention to the resistance?  Do you walk away?  Do you just issue a citation and allow him to continue selling cigarettes in front of local businesses?

You are the cop.  What do you do?

BZ

P.S.

Now information from the NY Post indicating:

Man in chokehold death had no throat damage: autopsy

The forbidden chokehold used by a cop to take down a Staten Island man in a deadly encounter Thursday did not damage his windpipe or neck bones, sources said.

The preliminary autopsy findings could be welcome news for Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, now named as the cop who wrapped his arm around Eric Garner’s throat while trying to ­arrest him.

“If you’re the defense counsel in this case, this is very good news, because it’s consistent with what appears to be the case — that they didn’t mean to hurt him,” said John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor Eugene O’Donnell.

But a source close to the Medical Examiner’s investigation said coroners are also investigating whether the chokehold still contributed to Garner’s death by aggravating his pre-existing conditions of obesity, asthma and possible heart disease. He died of cardiac arrest in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Conflicts?  Again, what would you do?

 

Charles Barkley: now a “sell-out,” say blacks

Charles BarkleyBecause Charles Barkley deigned to actually state some truth and weigh in on the Ferguson riots.  Please listen below.

From the ChristianScienceMonitor.com:

Former NBA star Charles Barkley recently called Ferguson looters “scumbags,” praised police officers who work in black neighborhoods, and said he supports the decision made by the grand jury not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown shooting.

During an interview on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia on Tuesday, the day after the Ferguson decision was announced, host Mike Missanelli asked Barkley about it and why “black America” doesn’t trust the ruling.

Charles Barkley, for the uninitiated, has always spoken his mind.

“The true story came out from the grand jury testimony,” Barkley said, adding that he was made aware of “key forensic evidence, and several black witnesses that supported Officer Darren Wilson’s story…” He continued, “I can’t believe anything I hear on television anymore. And, that’s why I don’t like talking about race issues with the media anymore, because they (the media) love this stuff, and lead people to jump to conclusions. The media shouldn’t do that. They never do that when black people kill each other. ” 

Wait; Barkley speaks even more plainly:

He also called those who rioted after the decision was announced “scumbags,” and said “There is no excuse for people to be out there burning down people’s businesses, burning down police cars.”

But here’s where a radical paradigm shift comes into play, and why Barkley is perceived as a traitor to his race:

And in a marked departure from other prominent black leaders who have questioned tactics used by officers and, in some cases, accused officers of racial profiling and outright racism, Barkley supported police officers, especially those who work in black neighborhoods.

“[W]e have to be really careful with the cops, because if it wasn’t for the cops we would be living in the Wild, Wild West in our neighborhoods,” he said. “We can’t pick out certain incidentals that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad…. Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?”

As a matter of fact, yes, Charles, I do know how bad “some of those neighborhoods would be” if it weren’t for a law enforcement presence.  I am a cop.

Certain blacks — and some GOWPs — hate Barkley because he is in a position to actually state the truth.  He has money, he answers to no one.  He can’t be hurt.  And with such independence comes an amazing freedom.  Which Barkley utilizes.

Good for him.

BZ

 

“Hands up, don’t shoot” — four Congressional Black Caucus racists

Ferguson CBC Jeffries, Lee, Green, Clarke, Hands Up Don't ShootMembers of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representatives Jeffries (D-NY), Clarke (D-NY), Lee (D-Texas), and Green (D-Texas) put their hands up in faux outrage over the Ferguson grand jury verdict regarding Michael Brown.

Proving, unfortunately, that these members of the CBC are in fact racists.

Good to know.

From the NYDailyNews.com:

Four members of the Congressional Black Caucus did the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture during remarks Monday on the House Floor, to show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Mo.

Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) and Al Green (D-Tex.), referred to the gesture that has come to symbolize the outrage over the death of Brown, the African American teen shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in August..

“ ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ is a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence in … communities all across America,” Jeffries said.

The problem?  It’s all factual bullshit.  Via forensics as well as St Louis County grand jury testimony, at no time did Michael Brown have his hands up and at no time did he say “don’t shoot.”

These people don’t care.  They have a racial meme to provide and enhance, and they don’t care about facts.  Facts be damned.

Simple as that.

BZ

 

The real truth about Michael Brown and how he came to be:

Michael Brown TruthSummarized in one very sad graphic:

BZ

P.S.

Even Charles Barkley weighs in:

Ferguson Looters Are Scumbags - Charles Barkley