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"It’s the second Eric Garner video that made me cry.
Not the one where Officer Daniel Pantaleo chokes Garner for 15 seconds before smashing his head into the sidewalk for 10 seconds as other cops hold down and cuff Garner, ignoring the pleas he issued with the last air in his lungs:
“I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.”
It’s the video shot minutes later as Garner lies dying among men and women in uniforms, men and women who seemed not to give half a damn, that broke me down."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
originally posted by: butcherguy
A black female supervisor watched it all go down without stopping it. She stood there with her hands on her hips while he cried out that he couldn't breathe.
Shouldn't she bear some responsibility?
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: butcherguy
She should take responsibility because I believe she was the officer in charge.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: butcherguy
Okay.
But I look at this a police brutality case but just because she is black doesn't mean the NYPD doesn't target blacks. Their own history proves otherwise.
originally posted by: amazing
originally posted by: butcherguy
A black female supervisor watched it all go down without stopping it. She stood there with her hands on her hips while he cried out that he couldn't breathe.
Shouldn't she bear some responsibility?
Why does it matter that the supervisor was black or female? Why couldn't you just say there was a supervisor there? Hmmm[/
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See my other reply.
Hmmm. You just want to jump on anyone with a charge of racism.
HMMM.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: butcherguy
And there's a reason for that but it's not solely a racial case. The NYPD killed a man who they said was selling loose untax smokes but yet found no smokes on him. What did they accomplish by killing him? Are the streets safer? Judging by their actions the answer is clearly no.
Didn't he just break up a fight before they arrived?
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: Grovit
While there is definitely a race issue here I never brought it up nor did I want it to turn into that, Butcher wanted to though. What bothers me is the brutality of it all and how the police are clearly above the law.
Police and prosecutors are the problem here.