Let's see,
- NYC the
police gave a choke hold to an unarmed black man, and choke
holds are banned by the NYC Police Department
- The man
repeatedly yelled out, "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" but
they continued until he passed out. Minutes later he died.
- The medical
examiners concluded his death resulted from pressure on his neck
and throat from the choke hold, along with “the compression of
his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by
police." Made worse because of his asthma.
- There were
twenty people who saw the illegal choke hold and heard him
screaming.
- There
was a very clear, very graphic, video taken of the event
- Nobody
disputes any of the events in the video or the charges.
- And a grand
jury said that there was not enough evidence to allow it to go
to trial.
Well, okay then…
By the way, for what it's worth, Grand Juries
are not Court
Juries. Their task is simply to hear the prosecutor's case to see
if there is
enough evidence against the accused to justify a case going forward. They don’t need,
and almost
never receive, both sides. They are not trying the case, just
seeing if the
evidence merits a trial. In the new York City case, as with the
Ferguson, MO case,
they received ALL of the evidence on BOTH sides and in effect
tried the case. It
wasn't illegal to do that, but extremely unusual
and not at all what they were called together to do. That had much
to do with
their decision.
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