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[Toxi]

It's laughable how people on twitter are trying to say this is about the government upholding taxes and not race.

It's about race you jerkoffs. The police don't give a fuck about rich white people's tax evasion. The grand jury did not give a fuck about Eric Garner's supposed tax evasion.

 

[Derwind]

Read thread title...

Looked up news...

Watched video...

....

Welp, time to update my list of what I can't do while being in my own skin.

I'm starting to think that the only way to not be killed while being black is to not step outside.... no wait...

Also, I can't believe I only heard about this case now.

 

[Verano]

even with a camera, there's no indictment. Minority report then.

 

[hwateber]

Saw this on the news during lunch today. This shit was on fucking camera and the cops fucking got away with it. There goes any faith I had in body cameras helping.

 

[Ovid]

Read thread title...

Looked up news...

Watched video...

....

Welp, time to update my list of what I can't do while being in my own skin.

I'm starting to think that the only way to not be killed while being black is to not step outside.... no wait...

Also, I can't believe I only heard about this case now.

Don't forget Akai Gurley. It happened two weeks ago.

 

[TacticalFox88]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

 

[Cagey]

Shutting down the Westside is nice. Protesting in worldwide landmark Times Square is nice.

Block the fucking Lincoln tomorrow.

 

[DrForester]

Reading more about this, it just gets more and more incomprehensible.

A police officer kills a man by doing something he shouldn't be doing. How is that not Criminally Negligent Homicide?

 

[Toxi]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

"Compassion for the Garner family."

I think they'd disagree.

Reading more about this, it just gets more and more incomprehensible.

A police officer kills a man by doing something he shouldn't be doing. How is that not Criminally Negligent Homicide?

The truth doesn't matter here.

 

[richiek]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

Peter King being an insensitive bigoted douchebag. Not surprised at all.

 

[ponpo]

Did they ever say what charges they were seeking in the Grand Jury?

 

[jmood88]

Cops already assume the worst about black folk, that they're violent superhuman brutes, now you want them to use guns against cops?? This post, I just can't...

He's saying that it's sad that people can't use force against cops if they fear for their lives, not that they should do it.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

That tweet legitimately made me angry....and to bring in Garner's family is....ugh

Short of global domination, how do I make it so these police killings of unarmed black men never happen again?

 

[Toxi]

Did they ever say what charges they were seeking in the Grand Jury?

"We can conclude the police did not commit arson, armed burglary, smuggling illegal substances, or tax evasion, so there is no reason to indict."

 

[Indicate]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

In a cnn interview earlier on, he was blaming Eric Garners death because he was obese.

 

[epmode]

Reading more about this, it just gets more and more incomprehensible.

A police officer kills a man by doing something he shouldn't be doing. How is that not Criminally Negligent Homicide?

I don't think the prosecutor was aiming for that. He seems to have been shooting for a one of the more severe murder charges. It is likely that he had every intention of not indicting and blaming the grand jury.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/th...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

For those of you who think the system is "broken", you haven't been paying enough attention. It works exactly as it was designed to work.

 

[richiek]

Tomorrow's cover of the Daily News:

 

[ponpo]

Some people are saying the 'hold' the cop used was a 'submission hold' which is apparently allowed vs the outlawed 'choke hold'. What's the difference?

 

[rjinaz]

Sad day for America. Not even a little surprised. Just sad, and empty. This isn't the America I love.

 

[Derwind]

Don't forget Akai Gurley. It happened two weeks ago.

Oh no, I remember that one. Thats number 78 on the list.

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

Father was NYPD, not even surprised.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Some people are saying the 'hold' the cop used was a 'submission hold' which is apparently allowed vs the outlawed 'choke hold'. What's the difference?

The use of the word "submission" instead of "choke."

The method of "submission" employed with that hold is to choke a person until they comply or pass out.

Also, I'd really like to believe Cleveland's gonna do right by Tamar Rice when that grand jury convenes. But...

 

[DrForester]

Some people are saying the 'hold' the cop used was a 'submission hold' which is apparently allowed vs the outlawed 'choke hold'. What's the difference?

Well, one's illegal, and one isn't.

 

[BobLoblaw]

I hope to god we get the names of the ignorant fucks on the jury. I have to know why the hell the didn't indict. Grand juries these days think they're goddamn trial juries now.

 

[BobLoblaw]

Some people are saying the 'hold' the cop used was a 'submission hold' which is apparently allowed vs the outlawed 'choke hold'. What's the difference?

When it's used on black people, it's a submission hold. When it's used on non-blacks, it's a choke hold.

 

[A Human Becoming]

Wow, protestors in NY were just calling the NYPD the KKK. Lotta hate.

 

[Dai101]

Wow, protestors in NY were just calling the NYPD the KKK. Lotta hate.

Understandable.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

The new popular argument is he brought it on himself. The cop even violating policy was "doing his job"

See the police union says it wasn't a chokehold, so basically Eric Garner choked himself to death by resisting! Makes sense!

 

[UberTag]

Wow, protestors in NY were just calling the NYPD the KKK. Lotta hate.

Blue cop uniforms are the white hoods and cloaks of the 21st century.

 

[Afrocious]

I'm fucking done. Good lord I have no idea what to do now.

 

[victreeb3l]

I just have absolutely no idea how things are going to change. This is what fucking depresses me the most.

 

[pxleyes]

Jon Stewart going non-comedy for the opening piece on Eric Garner. Tons of respect for Stewart to using his platform responsibily.

 

[Indicate]

"U/D Brooklyn: Fulton St & Ralph The perp in custody in regards to setting 6 cars and 1 police car fire @NYCFirewire" - NY Scanner @NYScanner

http://pix11.com/2014/12/03/car-set-on-fire-outside-77th-precinct-in-brooklyn/

Current protests
http://www.ustream.tv/uneditedcamera

 

[sometimes i game]

It's disgusting, there are no consequences for anyone that wears a badge.

He screamed I can't breathe.

He was choked longer until he was dead.

WHY IS THIS NOT A PUNISHABLE OFFENSE

 

[Toxi]

Wow, protestors in NY were just calling the NYPD the KKK. Lotta hate.

Deserved.

 

[Balb]

Blue cop uniforms are the white hoods and cloaks of the 21st century.

and 20th, and 19th.

 

[Gleethor]

"U/D Brooklyn: Fulton St & Ralph The perp in custody in regards to setting 6 cars and 1 police car fire @NYCFirewire" - NY Scanner @NYScanner

http://pix11.com/2014/12/03/car-set-on-fire-outside-77th-precinct-in-brooklyn/

Current protests
http://www.ustream.tv/uneditedcamera

Ok the police car I can understand, but please don't fuck with other people's cars. My car is pretty much my livelihood.

 

[Jobbs]

what's the fox news defense of the verdict/police?

I'm just curious. you see police choke a guy to death on camera just for standing there arguing -- what's the defense?

just curious.

 

[PInk Tape]

This is fucking bullshit.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

I just have absolutely no idea how things are going to change. This is what fucking depresses me the most.

Unrest. Protests and civil disobedience. Probably about at that point now. There is at least a history of effectiveness of it in the US.

 

[Gleethor]

what's the fox news defense of the verdict/police?

I'm just curious. you see police choke a guy to death on camera just for standing there arguing -- what's the defense?

just curious.

OBESITY: An "urban" epidemic!

 

[fallengorn]

https://twitter.com/RepPeteKing/status/540251527957708801


ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

Eh... Pete King is an asshole.

 

[zma1013]

Whatever happened with that other case where the guy got choked to death? The one where he wasn't even the suspect, his wife or someone was fighting with someone else and they came and smothered him to death? Did anything ever happen with that?

 

[Mesousa]

Just got back from a protest in Atlanta. People are fed up, but I don't see revolution in them.

 

[JCizzle]

Eh... Pete King is an asshole.

Yep, he's a master troll on serious issues. He's a vile individual.

 

[antonz]

what's the fox news defense of the verdict/police?

I'm just curious. you see police choke a guy to death on camera just for standing there arguing -- what's the defense?

just curious.

Most of Fox is actually shocked that the cop wasn't indicted. You got the real assholes like Hannity who are being themselves. and of course parading former police officers forced to resign in disgrace etc sharing their "opinions"

 

[Jobbs]

Most of Fox is actually shocked that the cop wasn't indicted. You got the real assholes like Hannity who are being themselves. and of course parading former police officers forced to resign in disgrace etc sharing their "opinions"

right, but what IS the defense? how do you justify what the police did?

 

[Mully]

Where is the VICE crew reporting from right now? What part of town?

 

[antonz]

right, but what IS the defense? how do you justify what the police did?

Oh the defense being provided is He resisted arrest when he slapped the officers hands away and at that point the officers were allowed to escalate their force in taking down the suspect.

 

[A Human Becoming]

I think a woman speaking to Vice News has the right idea: local prosecutors shouldn't be indicting police officers because there's a conflict of interest. The Fed should deal with it.

Edit: Meant to say SHOULDN'T!