NOVANEWS
Eric Garner
A grand jury in New York declined Wednesday to indict white police Officer Daniel Pantaleo on criminal charges in the chokehold death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in July.
Observers across the country responded with outrage. Garner’s death had been clearly ruled a homicide by a city medical examiner in July, and chokeholds have been against New York Police Department policy since 1993.
+ The civil rights division of the Department of Justice is investigating the case.
+ Protesters are demonstrating across New York (and the country) in the wake of the grand jury decision.
+ Eric Garner’s final words — “I can’t breathe” — are so much more than a plea for air.
+ What Eric Garner’s death reveals about America, in 9 tweets.
+ Everyone needs to read New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s heartbreaking remarks on Garner and the NYPD.
+ Liberals and conservatives were divided over Ferguson, but they appear united behind Eric Garner.
+ America’s police killing problem is worse than you probably imagined, but the FBI doesn’t even keep track the right way.
+ CrimingWhileWhite brilliantly destroys American law enforcement’s racial double standard.
