Judge Naplitano Overruled

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Jack Dunphy

 

 

December 4, 2014

While driving home from work Wednesday evening, I listened to Hugh Hewitt interviewing Andrew Napolitano, the former judge who now serves as a legal analyst for the Fox News Channel. Among the topics discussed was the day’s news that a Staten Island grand jury had declined to indict an NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner.

 

Recall that Garner died July 17 after struggling with several NYPD officers who were trying to arrest him for selling “looses,” or individual, untaxed cigarettes. The incident was recorded on video by a witness. One of the officers, Daniel Pantaleo, can be seen in the video briefly wrapping his arm around Garner’s neck as Garner is wrestled to the ground. But for the unfortunate outcome, it appeared to me to be an unremarkable application of force against a resisting individual, one whose large size made it especially difficult to get him into handcuffs. (I wrote about the incident in an August column for PJ Media.)

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Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power

The Eric Garner case is a reminder that government is force, and more government equals more force.

By Robert Tracinski DECEMBER 4, 2014

There are mass protests again about a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the death of a black man. This time, the protesters might even be right.

 

It is the second time in a week that this has happened, following the decision by the grand jury in the Ferguson case, but it is interesting to see the different reactions. Commentators and activists on the left assumed in both cases that the white cop was guilty because he was a white cop, regardless of the evidence.

 

What did the facts show in the Staten Island case? They don’t show deliberate murder. The video of the police arrest of Eric Garner shows no evidence of malice or specific intent to harm Garner. Rather, it shows a callousness toward his obvious physical distress when the confrontation goes wrong.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/04/eric-garner-and-omnipresent-police-power/

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The Actual Facts Eric Garner Case

by BEN SHAPIRO 3 Dec 2014

On Wednesday, a New York grand jury refused to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner. Pantaleo is white; Garner is black. That one fact meant that the President of the United States and the Mayor of New York City took to the microphones to denounce American racism. President Obama talked about the “concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not working with them and dealing with them in a fair way.” De Blasio went further, of course, calling for “action” and suggesting that the incident represented the culmination of “centuries of racism.

 

Unlike the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri, there is excellent cause for concern here. But that concern does not mean that facts of the case ought to become irrelevant.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/03/actual-facts-Eric-Garner

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December 04, 2014

Eric Garner's Arrest Overseen by Female Black Sergeant —Ace

You never quite get all the facts upfront from the media, do you?

 

Those on the "Manslaughter" side of the fence will say this doesn't matter (and I guess will say it also doesn't matter that the two sergeants present, in command of the arrest, were given immunity in exchange for their testimony). They'll say, "Fine, so it's not about race, but it's still about excessive force."

 

My problem with that is: Absent the element of race, no one talks about this case, ever, at all. If Eric Garner were white, we'd've never heard a single word about this.

 

It's also important because Eric Holder is threatening to launch some kind of civil rights violation investigation. But given that the arrest was supervised by a black woman, it seems very hard to make the case that some White Dudes conspired to deprive a black man of his civil rights.

 

As Pete Hamil wrote: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/353544.php