Concerning the homicide of Eric Garner, someone recently pointed out to me that Garner resisted arrest.
Really?
He didn't resist arrest anymore than the average grandmother would do.
And when he lay there dying on the ground they stood there and watched. When the EMT came and asked them why no one administered CPR a cop lied and said he was breathing. He was not.
If you think this had nothing to do with race, I would ask you to sit down for a moment and just watch the footage. And then watch it again. The police violently strangled a man who was non-threatening, who "resisted" by pleading with them that he couldn't breath while like five or so of them pinned him to the ground. The whole situation happened very quickly, but they just stand around, watching this man die. He was large and he was black, and if you can write that off in your head and excuse the cops for whatever reason you can come up with to satisfy that cognitive dissonance, but I hope this will make people think. The country needs to come to terms with the way we approach race. Ferguson polarized it for obvious reason, but the fact of the matter is that black people are killed, beaten and mistreated by the police more than the rest of us. And you wonder why they don't trust police?
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