I think people are casting blame at the wrong party.
The cop was doing what the City of New York hired him to do; enforce a law that the City Government had passed.
If we don't believe the law should be enforced, then we should vilify those who passed it and repeal it, not vilify those who enforce it.
Eric Garner most likely died because:
(1) he was very out of shape and
(2) he was resisting arrest.
Les
In what way were they "enforcing the law"?
How does subduing and incapacitating a suspect, coincide with the people's rights to prohibition of government's unreasonable search & seizure, deprivation of life, liberty, property without due process, trial without jury, cruel and unusual punishment, and the other usual despicable behavior of government thugs?
With total indifference to that right, the police engaged in a predictably lethal trajectory, with no f****** relation to enforcing the law.
Perhaps you will be dragged from your car and subdued when you make an illegal turn. Maybe you will be tackled to the ground with a knee on your head when you miss-step in the crosswalk.
After all you broke the law and you will submit to your punishment on the spot or you will be killed...and that's OK with people who call themselves libertarians?
I think they should call themselves NAZI's or police-state apologists. But haven't we had enough of those despicable scumbags?
John:
I really can't figure where you're coming from or how your post relates to my original post.
In my original post I didn't say anything about blaming Garner.
I said that the people who passed the law that Garner broke and who hired the cops to enforce it are complicit in the problem.
If people think the law should not be enforced, then they should elect people who will repeal it.
If people think the law should be enforced, then we will have to accept the fact that violence is sometimes needed to enforce it.
Les
In what way were they "enforcing the law"?
How does subduing and incapacitating a suspect, coincide with the people's rights to prohibition of government's unreasonable search & seizure, deprivation of life, liberty, property without due process, trial without jury, cruel and unusual punishment, and the other usual despicable behavior of government thugs?
With total indifference to that right, the police engaged in a predictably lethal trajectory, with no f****** relation to enforcing the law.
Perhaps you will be dragged from your car and subdued when you make an illegal turn.
Maybe you will be tackled to the ground with a knee on your head when you miss-step in the crosswalk.
After all you broke the law and you will submit to your punishment on the spot or you will be killed...and that's OK with people who call themselves libertarians?
I think they should call themselves NAZI's or police-state apologists. But haven't we had enough of those despicable scumbags?