04-08-2014, 05:08 AM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Hey, a cop said he was sorry for the wife's loss. Relax. It was an unfortunate outcome.
Quote: A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows.
"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Eric Garner, 43, repeatedly screamed after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he balked at being handcuffed.
Within moments Garner, a married father of six children with two grandchildren, stopped struggling and appeared to be unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene. An angry crowd gathered, some recording with smartphones.
"When I kissed my husband this morning, I never thought it would be for the last time," Garner's wife, Esaw, told the Daily News.
She got no details from police until after she had gone to the hospital to identify his body, she said.
The man who filmed on his phone the event was just arrested on what I think is either a trumped-up charge and definitely revenge from the police - some moral nation of law - we don't have!!! America is really frightening. The police can kill with impunity anyone anytime - as can the intelligence agencies.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass