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Eric Garner's Wife Lashes Out At Cop Who Killed Her Husband!
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To Feed My Kids Now 04/12/2014Eric Garner's Wife Lashes Out At Cop
Who Killed Her Husband!
Attorney General Eric Holder
The Justice Department opened an
investigation into the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island, New
York, man who died when a New York City Police Department officer put
him in an unsanctioned chokehold in July, Attorney General Eric
Holder announced on Wednesday. A New York grand jury decided not to
indict the officer responsible for Garner’s death on Wednesday,
sparking national criticism just a week after a St. Louis grand jury
did not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in
suburban Ferguson.
“We have all seen the video of Mr.
Garner's arrest. His death, of course, was a tragedy. All lives must
be valued. All lives,” Holder said, appearing to reference the
popular protest phrase “black lives matter” that has been seen on
protest signs in Ferguson and across social media.
“This is not a New York issue or a
Ferguson issue alone,” he continued. “Those who have protested
peacefully across our great nation following the grand jury's
decision in Ferguson have made that clear.”
The probe will investigate whether
Garner's civil rights were infringed upon during his arrest and
death. The DOJ will also conduct a "complete review of the
materials gathered," during the initial NYPD investigation into
Garner's death. Holder said the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office
had been watching the case closely since Garner's death.
The Justice Department is in the middle
of a separate but similarinvestigation into the death of 18-year-old
Brown, an unarmed black man fatally shot by a white police officer. A
grand jury also decided not to indict Wilson in that case last week.
The grand jury decision sparked
protests across New York City and a social media campaign under the
hashtags #ICantBreath and #EricGarner. The former refers to Garner’s
pleas to police officers as they held him down, suffocating him.
Police officers restrained Garner during an argument after police
approached him for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes outside of a
store in Tompkinsville. A city medical examinerdetermined in July
that his death was a homicide caused by compression of the neck and
chest, exacerbated by Garner’s obesity, asthma and hypertension.
“As the brother of a retired police
officer, I've seen that the vast majority of law enforcement officers
perform their duties valiantly,” Holder said. “It is for their
sake that we must seek to heal the breakdown in trust we have seen.”
The American Civil Liberties Union
released a petition this week urging the DOJ to ban racial profiling
by police following the Ferguson grand jury decision and added today
that the grand jury decision to not indict Garner was further
evidence that there is a systemic problem with racial profiling and a
lack of police accountability countrywide.
“[The Garner decision] follows an
appalling national pattern where police officers use excessive and
sometimes fatal force against people of color and are frequently not
held responsible,” the petition read
Protests
Spread Across Country After Garner Decision
Protesters
Disrupt Traffic, Shopping in Major Cities; Demonstrations Become More
Organized, With Goals
Police continue to assault peaceful demonstrators while corporate news media censors the violence. At 5PM on 12/6/14, hundreds of UC Berkeley students and Berkeley residents began a peaceful march from Sproul Plaza to the Berkeley Marina to protest the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and countless other brown and black youth at the hands of police. Along the way, police set up barricades and fired rubber bullets and smoke bombs, shattering one student's knee and causing another student to have a seizure. The injured were not allowed to seek medical attention and were instead corralled by riot police. The group eventually made its way back to Sproul Plaza, where students were once again kettled around the Bancroft/Telegraph area. This video begins with riot police forcing students south down Telegraph, which only caused more Cal, Berkeley High, and City College students to join the struggle. The demonstrators were pushed all the way down Telegraph by waves of tear gas until they reached the border of Oakland, where the riot police finally dissipated. This is a sample of what we were able to capture on two cameras - there's a lot we were unable to film. Please share this video!
The Justice Department opened an investigation
into the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island, New York, man who died when a
New York City Police Department officer put him in an unsanctioned chokehold in
July, Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Wednesday. A New York grand
jury decided not to indict the officer responsible for Garner’s death on
Wednesday, sparking national criticism just a week after a St. Louis grand jury
did not indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown in suburban
Ferguson.
“We have all seen the video of Mr. Garner's
arrest. His death, of course, was a tragedy. All lives must be valued. All
lives,” Holder said, appearing to reference the popular protest phrase “black
lives matter” that has been seen on protest signs in Ferguson and across social
media.
“This is not a New York issue or a Ferguson
issue alone,” he continued. “Those who have protested peacefully across our
great nation following the grand jury's decision in Ferguson have made that
clear.”
The probe will investigate whether Garner's
civil rights were infringed upon during his arrest and death. The DOJ will also
conduct a "complete review of the materials gathered," during the
initial NYPD investigation into Garner's death. Holder said the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney's office had been watching the case closely since Garner's death.
The Justice Department is in the middle of a
separate but similarinvestigation into the death of 18-year-old Brown, an
unarmed black man fatally shot by a white police officer. A grand jury also
decided not to indict Wilson in that case last week.
The grand jury decision sparked protests across
New York City and a social media campaign under the hashtags #ICantBreath and
#EricGarner. The former refers to Garner’s pleas to police officers as they
held him down, suffocating him. Police officers restrained Garner during an
argument after police approached him for selling untaxed, loose cigarettes
outside of a store in Tompkinsville. A city medical examinerdetermined in July
that his death was a homicide caused by compression of the neck and chest,
exacerbated by Garner’s obesity, asthma and hypertension.
“As the brother of a retired police officer,
I've seen that the vast majority of law enforcement officers perform their
duties valiantly,” Holder said. “It is for their sake that we must seek to heal
the breakdown in trust we have seen.”
The American Civil Liberties Union released a
petition this week urging the DOJ to ban racial profiling by police following
the Ferguson grand jury decision and added today that the grand jury decision
to not indict Garner was further evidence that there is a systemic problem with
racial profiling and a lack of police accountability countrywide.
“[The Garner decision] follows an appalling
national pattern where police officers use excessive and sometimes fatal force
against people of color and are frequently not held responsible,” the petition
read
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