December 03, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I turned on the teevee to see coverage from New York in the chokehold police murder of a guy committing the horrendous crime of selling single cigarettes on the street.
Some dude on CNN defended the grand jury and said in plain English, “If you just do what the police officers tell you to do, you’ll probably be okay.”
Probably?
Yeah, dude, and you’re probably an idiot.
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1I just don’t get it. In the 1970’s I first heard about chokeholds when an LAPD officer killed a guy using a misplaced chokehold. Joe Wambaugh fictionalized it in The Choirboys, I think. My flabber is just gasted that this truism, chokeholds can kill the chokee, hasn’t gotten around in uhhh 40+ years. How slow on the uptake are these guys??
2Such great advice that worked so well for others who failed to respond to orders that were not whispered.
Other than the fact that the choke hold is not allowed per their post orders, why can’t police show some common sense? Like maybe not wrestling a man to the ground who looks like a heart attack walking, or giving children a full 3 seconds to respond or not expecting people in episode to to respond at all. Their haste sure seems to end up with too many unnecessary deaths.
Bad cop, no donut.
3For cigarettes? Seriously? I saw the video. The guy was gasping that he could not breathe. He was already supine and hands controlled. He was also so large he could not spring to his feet and bound away like a deer. What is wrong with this picture?
4However, if you DO comply with the nice police officer’s orders you may STILL be shot or choked to death. Just, you know, FYI.
5It’s remarks like this that caused a recent protesting (about Ferguson) crowd to shout “_____ CNN! _____CNN,” so loudly that the CNN reporter could not be heard over the shouting. It was in NY.
6Yeah, this is being passed around on Facebook, as well!!
“If you just do what the police officers tell you to do, you’ll probably be okay.”
Bunch of stupid, ugly white guys and gals flinging that around like a monkey flings its own feces around!!
The stupidity is beyond my comprehension!!
7I agree, this is horrible and that was an incredibly naive remark, but the stupid award HAS to go to Inhofe for saying that climate change is a big conspiracy led by Barbra Streisand. Hell, if he’d left Barbra out, he would still win an award for stupid.
8What’s Rupert Murcdoch’s take on this? I am sure Elizabeth Hassnobrain will be right on it with incisive commentary.
9@Linda Phipps
10Until this moment I called her Hasselbutt. Consider Hasnobrain appropriated with 49 state credit given to you.
Don’t beat me up over this, but complying peacefully with police orders is likely to give you a better chance of coming out okay compared to struggling, as happened to this unfortunate fellow. If anybody cares to personally test this proposition – give it a go and let me how it turns out for you. Good luck.
11Not related to that fool but to the case in general – bring in a special prosecutor in *all* such cases in the future. Too much back-scratching going on here. Only thing that can explain no indictment.
1) Any choke hold whatsoever was against policy. 2) Coroner ruled it a homicide. 3) Video shows victim was not being violent, although that is irrelevant, given 1).
I wish I could say this outcome was unbelievable. It’s certainly appalling.
12If you just do what the Nigerian Prince asks you to do on the internet, you’ll probably get a million dollars.
13The guy *wasn’t* struggling until they had him down in a choke hold.
14Anyone who has lived through the Civil Rights era in the 50’s and 60s knows of what brutality the “officers” are capable just because you are not the right color, or because you show support for those who are not the right color. Police brutality has rightfully been thrust into the spotlight and it is in all our best interests to fight against it.
15This is absolute confirmation we live in a police state where Judges and DAs have their friends in the grand jury and cover up themselves like a big mafia. It is on video!!! The criminal cop made an ILLEGAL chokehold and killed the man. How is it possible that he can get away with this? We should be ashamed of the society we live right now! Dr. Oto Cantu.
16I’m sorry to say that I’m starting to lose track of which black man or boy was killed by which cop where, not because I don’t care but because there seems to be a new case, or new grand jury non-indictment, every couple of days. What the hell is this, open season? Cops see other cops getting away with it, so why not.
The Dred Scott decision said that the black man had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, but I thought we’d fought a war and passed several Constitutional amendments to get rid of that notion. Am I wrong?
17@Dr Cantu
18Whether we like it or not, the reality is that Grand Juries in Texas, and probably elsewhere, indict defendants that the DA’s office wants indicted. Conversely thye do not indict defendants that the DA’s office doesn’t want indicted. So the real question on the table is Why didn’t that NY DA want that NY officer indicted? And if he becomes Chief somewhere in a few years, you’ll have your answer.
Dr Cantu and Micr, grand juries serve a purpose in determining probable cause, while secret grand juries have always been a problem. Transparency and open courts serve justice. Secrecy is an anathema to democracy or any form of open society. The only “indictments” from the Wilson GJ are McCulloch and his assistants. Oh save one for Jay Nixon, too. That a special prosecutor was not appointed is ludicrous in face of the known facts.
Rhea, you’re not wrong. Our courts and LE are out of control in too many jurisdictions.
19The Staten Island did return an indictment on the guy the D.A. wanted indicted.
They indicted the guy who filmed the whole thing for the world to see.
Retaliation…. much????
20The Staten Island Grand Jury…..
Y’all know what I meant.
So….. the D.A. can, in fact, indict a ham sandwich….. Just not a cop.
21one would think that selling smokes one at a time can get you killed what will happen to all of the shady wall st bankers??
22Pantaleo was sued twice in the past for alleged racially motivated misconduct while on the job. Two black men accused him in 2012 of subjecting them to an illegal strip search in broad daylight. Pantaleo purportedly “tapped” each man’s testicles during the search, which he claimed was a bid to discover any contraband, the Daily News reported. The suit was settled last January.
In a second lawsuit, a man named Rylawn Walker accused a group of NYPD officers that included Pantaleo of arresting him despite the fact that he was “committing no crime at the time and was not acting in a suspicious manner” and of including misleading data on a police report to justify the arrest, the Staten Island Advance reported. Charges against the man were ultimately dismissed.
Nice Cop,what?
23http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/daniel_pantaleo_not_indicted_why_the_nypd_officer_wasn_t_indicted_in_the.html
24I no longer trust the people I pay to serve and protect us. In fact, I fear them all. Not all cops are trustworthy.
I wonder what this group of LEOs was up to?
http://www.click2houston.com/news/montgomery-county-sheriffs-deputies-under-investigation/30009242
Cops stealing from each other? There’s no honor among thieves.
25I was very proud of the non violent civil disobedience practiced. My good friend, the Rev. Lucius Walker Jr. would be so proud!
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