How did the chokehold cause him to die? Was it the stress he received from being put in the hold causing him to have a heart attack? The description says he's saying "I can't breathe" while in the chokehold, but he clearly wasn't being choked as the arm wasn't around his throat at that time and he was able to speak clearly. From earlier comments I thought I was going to see a video of a cop not letting go or breaking the guys trachea. The initial application was sloppy to say the least and wasn't held for any significant amount of time. The coroner ruling it a homicide doesn't mean that there was intent to murder either.

It's not any different than any other type of employment. There is going to be good and bad. There are tens of thousands of police encounters every day that end well just as Mcdonald's get's millions of orders right every day. It's not all bad and it is illogical and doesn't follow evidence to the contrary.to believe so.

Are there prick cops, racist cops and predatory cops? Of course there are. There are even power hungry ones(I've had a run in with two over minor stops), but to assume that every person that takes it up as a career is like that is ridiculous. The training doctrine is built around respectful communication and ending things with the lowest level of force available and only if there is no other option. Just because it doesn't always go that way doesn't mean it always goes that way.

If we want to reduce events like the Garner event, lets stand up and get rid of totalitarian, idiotic laws like "selling loose, untaxed" cigarettes. This is the same state that had stop and frisk laws for years without probable cause. It's government out of control in that state. They haven't yet finished the good fight against 16 oz sodas have they?

I find it interesting that you feel the need to say "white". I doubt its any different if the officer is black. You are bringing racism into a law debate. And funnily enough white people are the ones beeing discriminated in this crude generalisation... almost in an atempt to play the victim.

Here a great video to sum it all up.

What the junk..............

Well I'm not sure why the video is showing up in the Comment but not when I post, here is the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUdHIatS36A

In this case the officer was out of line. In the Wilson case he had every right to shoot a grown man who was assaulting him. Anybody with a gun being assaulted by Brown would have done the same.

I'd say police officers in general think they're above the law. Not all of them, but a good amount do. Sadly this is one of the signs of a decaying society.

i would say at least 70% are "good cops"

20% are just power hungry

8% are bad cops

2% are legitimately racist

The articles you linked are compelling. The footage even more so!

:D

yep, just makes you roll your eyes and laugh at the Ferguson grand jury.