Eric Garner was a good man with a family he loved and children he was raising to be successful. He was proud of his children. When the nation should be proud of successful minority families, it would seem the profile doesn't fit the stereotypes of police.
July 21, 2014
By Josh Margolin and Mark Crudele
The four EMTs (click here) who responded to the scene where New York City cops had taken Eric Garner down after an apparent chokehold and he died an hour later have been suspended without pay while their actions are being investigated.
The Fire Department of New York, which handles citywide emergency medical dispatch, on Sunday barred them from responding to 911 calls. The latest move is by Richmond University Medical Center, which employs them. The hospital declined to explain the decision.
"The EMTs are suspended without pay while the investigation continues as they are placed on operational restriction," the hospital said in a statement announcing the move. "This restriction means they are not working at this hospital or throughout the 911 system. Richmond University Medical Center continues to fully cooperate as this matter is under investigation."...
While the EMTs are part of the picture, they did not cause the reason for the necessity for EMTs to respond. The responsibility for Mr. Garner's death falls to the police department.
I find the entire circumstance around this man's death extremely strange.
July 21, 2014
By Brad Health
...At least 91% of the people agents (click here) have locked up using those stings were racial or ethnic minorities, USA TODAY found after reviewing court files and prison records from across the United States. Nearly all were either black or Hispanic. That rate is far higher than among people arrested for big-city violent crimes, or for other federal robbery, drug and gun offenses.
The ATF operations raise particular concerns because they seek to enlist suspected criminals in new crimes rather than merely solving old ones, giving agents and their underworld informants unusually wide latitude to select who will be targeted. In some cases, informants said they identified targets for the stings after simply meeting them on the street....
Just for the record, the 'idea' of selling single cigarettes to people who cannot afford a pack isn't really the focus of the ATF. Why is it the focus of NYPD?
...Illicit tobacco trade, (click here) which includes smuggling, bootlegging and related tax evasion schemes, is a major global problem....
Mr. Garner would never be the focus of a federal probe. Why was he the focus for New York? This is hideous. Completely hideous and a man is dead because the police aren't rounding up murderers and those smuggling drugs and tobacco into the country. There were at least seven police involved in the death of Mr. Garner. Really?
