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Via Sioux
This case is now as dead as the victim.
I’m not surprised by the no-indictment decision of the Staten Island grand jury in the Eric Garner chokehold case. The Garner killing is much, much different than the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Mo.
To start with, Darren Wilson, a white police officer, was alone when he confronted Michael Brown, a black teenager. Eric Garner was approached by a whole team of NYPD cops in Staten Island.
There was no videotape of the Michael Brown shooting so the killing had to be recreated from conflicting eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence. The Eric Garner killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was recorded on an exclusive Daily New videotape.
But what makes the Garner case so much different than Michael Brown’s is that the Staten Island killing can’t be called a racial incident.
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