July 25, 2014
By Jonathan Capehart
...“In the aftermath of this tragic event, (click here) Justice Department officials have been in touch with Mr. Garner’s family members,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement today. “We are closely monitoring the city’s investigation into the incident.”
This is the first time Mayor de Blasio is facing a death during an arrest by NYPD. He is very much a civil rights mayor. My first instinct is that the NY Mayor would carry out a through investigation, but, with the repeated problems of innocent black men being killed in NYC the Attorney General is focused on what is wrong within the NYPD that politics can't seem to end.
By Jonathan Capehart
...“In the aftermath of this tragic event, (click here) Justice Department officials have been in touch with Mr. Garner’s family members,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement today. “We are closely monitoring the city’s investigation into the incident.”
This is the first time Mayor de Blasio is facing a death during an arrest by NYPD. He is very much a civil rights mayor. My first instinct is that the NY Mayor would carry out a through investigation, but, with the repeated problems of innocent black men being killed in NYC the Attorney General is focused on what is wrong within the NYPD that politics can't seem to end.
