New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , LARRY MCSHANE
The Staten Island district attorney is investigating the shocking death of a 400-pound asthmatic dad after a city cop placed him in a chokehold.
Eric Garner, 43, died Thursday after a sidewalk takedown by five NYPD officers making an arrest outside a Tompkinsville beauty parlor.
“My office is working along with the NYPD to do a complete and thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Garner’s death,” said District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr. in a Friday statement.
A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, according to video of the incident.
The police Internal Affairs department began its investigation Thursday night, hours after the unarmed man’s death.
The NYPD, in its official statement about the fatal incident, said only that Garner went into cardiac arrest and died at Richmond University Medical Center. No criminal charges were filed Thursday in the death.
Within moments Garner, a married father of six children with two grandchildren, ceased struggling and appeared to become unconscious as police called paramedics to the scene.
But a video captured Garner’s desperate pleas for help as one cop shoved his head into the sidewalk and three others pinned him down — while a fifth cop put him in handcuffs.
“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” he shouted in vain. By the video’s end, Garner was lying motionless on the sidewalk as cops chased eyewitnesses away.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan says his office is looking into the death of Eric Garner.Garner is the married father of six kids and grandfather to two. His outraged family said cops provided them with no details until they arrived at the hospital to identify the body.
Garner says on the video that he was breaking up a fight before cops arrived, and insisted that he was wrongly accused.
“I did nothing,” he said loudly. “I was sitting here the whole time, minding my business.”
The video didn’t come through. Click on the link after “Read more” if you’d like to see it.
What did this poor guy do to deserve such treatment? He doesn’t look
dangerous. When someone says “I can’t breath” what is it that these
morons don’t get? Are they machines and can’t process the info.
Do they become rabid into the chase and lose all control? Must be
one of the requirements for the job is to take a pro-psychotic pill.
Another American murdered by the police. Happens every day. Any other vidios hold on to untill after infernal afairs releases there lie’s. As to how the police are in the right and clear of murder charges. They just consider it there job and right to murder a few tax payers a day.
Just f#@king kill us all…….
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a clear cut case of intentional murder. Anybody can clearly hear him say he can’t breath. When you keep on choking him, then that’s homicide.
this from a different reporter…
McCullers was more fortunate than Eric Garner, an asthmatic street vendor who suffocated beneath a half-ton of privileged, state-subsidized suet after five NYPD officers threw him to the sidewalk.
One of the assailants put Garner in a chokehold; he was quickly joined by several others who slammed the victim’s head repeatedly to the concrete.
Following standard procedure, other officers provided a barricade to protect their comrades as they murdered Garner, who had six children and two grandchildren. One officer threatened a citizen who video-recorded the entire atrocity.
The video is here:
http://informationliberation.com/?id=47924
forget the DA, because all he’ll do is grab a brush and help with the white-washing. Just shoot the pigs and be done with it.
When does the back lash start?
This can’t go on too much longer before the retaliation starts
I’m not advocating anything just stating the obvious
And you can bet when the tables turn these officers are going to cry foul big time
By than it will be too late
Careful cops , your starting something you won’t be able to stop and dam sure won’t be able to control
Sad part is , you’ll deserve every bit of the repercussions so suck it up
The relentless murder spree continues…
Soon EVERYONE will be cheering every time one of these sub-human troglodytes gets smoked.
When you walk up to some one and have no idea if they are the person you want,or if they did any thing wrong. You have a gun and lay a hand on them. That is attempted murder right there. They die at your hand that is murder. And yes they have the right once you touch them to deend themselfs from you a armed person. When are the cops going to learn to ask first as to what is going on? Oh they did! and they had a answer. I was not involved and don’t know. Unless others contradict that. You have no grounds for arest or to touch a person. You go of 1/2 cocked then plan on prison and being breach loaded there. This is why today no one will get close to a cop or speak to them. Why lay your life on the line around the likes of them? So they just walked up to a inocent person and asult with intent to kill for 5 and murder for 1 and 20 to life for all.