These Comments By Cops On The Eric Garner Decision Will Turn Your Stomach

With cops dehumanizing people in this manner, is it any wonder that they resort to deadly force so quickly?

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist
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Reports: The popular law enforcement website, policeone.com published a story on the outcome of the Eric Garner grand jury decision Wednesday, and it was riddled with disturbing comments from police officers. According to Policeone.com’s own terms, to leave a comment, “You must be a verified law enforcement professional,” so these comments

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“I Can’t Breathe”: Eric Garner’s Plea Becomes Rallying Cry For Justice

Following latest high-profile non-indictment of a police officer, protests explode and New York City and beyond.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
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Though a coroner classified his death a "homicide" and a video captured police surrounding the man while one officer, Daniel Pantaleo, placed the chokehold on Eric Garner that would end his life, a grand jury's decision on Wednesday not to return an indictment in the case spurred outrage nationwide and a night of street protests across New York

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New York City Braces For Eric Garner’s Choking Death Grand Jury Decision

New York is a city on the brink, ready to explode. Citizens are fed up with being continually abused by law enforcement and citizens nationwide are angry at the lack of accountability officers often face for their actions.

Jay Syrmopoulos
By Jay Syrmopoulos
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Reports: New York City, N.Y. – In a perhaps telling and ominous sign, Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan has called on the public to be patient and peaceful after the grand jury announces whether it will indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner, which was ruled a homicide by the medical

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Eric Garner’s Death Prompts Cop-Public Clash On Policing Tactics

The NYPD’s police commissioner and Internal Affairs Division both admit to “wrongdoing” in Garner’s arrest, but Internet users aren’t so sure.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Funeral for Eric Garner

Members of the American public have recently flooded the comments sections of news articles chronicling the tragic death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, who stopped breathing during his violent arrest in Staten Island, New York, last week for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. Though the bulk of the comments express outrage for the level of

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