If there was a giant white dude resisting arrest they would have done the same thing, race has nothing to do with this.
Via NY Daily News:
This case is now as dead as the victim.
I’m not surprised by the no-indictment decision of the Staten Island grand jury in the Eric Garner chokehold case. The Garner killing is much, much different than the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Mo.
To start with, Darren Wilson, a white police officer, was alone when he confronted Michael Brown, a black teenager. Eric Garner was approached by a whole team of NYPD cops in Staten Island.
There was no videotape of the Michael Brown shooting so the killing had to be recreated from conflicting eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence. The Eric Garner killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was recorded on an exclusive Daily New videotape.
But what makes the Garner case so much different than Michael Brown’s is that the Staten Island killing can’t be called a racial incident.
Pantaleo who applied the lethal chokehold on Eric Garner was supervised by an African-American female NYPD sergeant.
Having that black sergeant in charge of that crime scene takes race out of the equation. As awful as Pantaleo’s actions appear on that video, at no time does that black sergeant order Pantaleo to stop choking Garner.
With a population that is 70% white and 10% African-American, when a Staten Island grand jury is presented with a white cop supervised by a black sergeant applying a lethal chokehold, it eliminates the racial component.
The grand jury was then left with the decision of whether Pantaleo had malicious intentions. It decided that he did not. Case closed.