Mine is that cops all too often freak out if there is any physical resistance to arrest ( such as Garner, who for Christ's sake was only selling "looses" on the street--he should have known better than to resist arrest, but that does not exculpate the brutal way the cops behaved. )
I feel Garner got treated much rougher than a white person would have ( unless the cops did not like something about the white person).
With crime down all over, I am sort of amazed how trigger happy and choke-hold happy all these cops are.
It goes beyond something wrong with their training...the cop who put the chokehold on a man gasping " I can't breathe" was an experienced one and it was not a rookie mistake.
Bluntly, I feel there is more animosity between black and white people these days.
Times are bad for Black people in the second term of a Black president who has proven to be an extremely inept administrator and incredibly inept at moving his own programs along, especially THE program, Obamacare, --
It makes the average person think just like me, I believe: there is very little good that comes from trusting ANY politician.
Anyway, for a lively discussion of the issues that goes a lot deeper and is more thought out than anything I have to say right now ( I have a virus and am feeling weird. No, it's not Ebola. Oh , that reminds me, I have to call the Dermatologist first thing in the a.m. and cancel because I cannot be two places at once. I may not end up being anywhere except under the covers in bed).
UPDATED DECEMBER 4, 2014 4:33 PM
Do Cases Like Eric Garner’s Require a Special Prosecutor?
INTRODUCTION
Protestors gathered in Times Square on Dec. 3, following the announcement that the New York City police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner would not be indicted. Julio Cortez/Associated Press
Outrage over the failure of district attorneys inMissouri and New York to obtain Indictments against police who killed unarmed black men have fueled accusations that prosecutors won’t bring charges against officers they depend on daily. Many say case of possible excessive force by police should be taken out of the hands of local district attorneys. In Ontario, the Special Investigations Unit handles all cases in which officers have been accused of hurting or killing someone, and can bring criminal charges.
Should a special prosecutor always be given responsibility when police are accused of excessive force?
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