http://www.theatlantic.com/national...-garner-grand-jury-no-indictment-nypd/383392/
In this case you have a coroner ruling it a homicide and the officer using a takedown method forbidden in his department's policy. And yet the prosecutor couldn't manage an indictment.
I'm starting to think that when law officers are involved we should use special prosecutors to indict instead of relying on prosecutors that work day in and day out with these officers.
On Wednesday, a grand jury decided not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the plainclothes NYPD officer who was making the arrest.
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Garner has harrowing digital footprints. His attempted arrest and death was capture on a widely-disseminated video. His final words were “I can’t breathe.”
In the aftermath of the verdict, many will likely point to the fact that the coroner's report ruled Garner's death a homicide, and that chokeholds are expressly forbidden by the NYPD. As the New York Daily News pointed out, the autopsy also "determined the victim’s asthma, obesity and high blood pressure were also contributing factors in his death." Some will cite the police claims that Garner was resisting arrest. Others are already complaining that body cameras are apparently not the answer.
In this case you have a coroner ruling it a homicide and the officer using a takedown method forbidden in his department's policy. And yet the prosecutor couldn't manage an indictment.
I'm starting to think that when law officers are involved we should use special prosecutors to indict instead of relying on prosecutors that work day in and day out with these officers.