A Chokehold Didn’t Kill Eric Garner, Your Disrespect for the NYPD Did | VICE News
If you thought cops killed Eric Garner, you got it wrong. It’s the lack of respect for cops that did.
That’s pretty much the sentiment behind a bizarre press conference held by police unions on Tuesday, in which representatives talked angrily about how nobody in New York loves them anymore.
In their remarks, the reps picked up a fight with the city’s medical examiner, slamming the official autopsy report of Garner’s death as wrong and “political,” and accusing everyone from the mayor, to the media, to civil rights advocates of distorting the truth.
Call it semantics, but the man looked like he was being choked when a bunch of officers pushed him to the ground, while arresting him for selling loose cigarettes on a Staten Island sidewalk on July 17. Garner's last moments of life have been witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people in a video captured by a bystander.
The 43-year-old father of six, who was asthmatic, can be heard saying “I can’t breathe” several times in the footage, and the city’s chief medical examiner confirmed that much on August 1, when he ruled Garner’s death a “homicide by chokehold.”
Asthmatic man dies after being put into chokehold by NYPD. Watch the video here.
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