re: So was Garner put in a choke hold or not?

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When acting in their official capacity, police officers are not "ordinary citizens" and the actions they perform are protected by the law when the action would not be reasonably likely to kill someone. If the reasonable actions that police perform weren't protected then no one would be a police officer.

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And if police get to kill people with impunity and say "oops," no one will want a police force.

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I want bad cops to be punished as much as you do but when someone refuses to obey the lawful order of a police officer and resists allowing the officer to place him under arrest and cuff him and, as a result, the police officer has no choice but to use physical force in order to cuff the person then if the person is injured or even killed in the process of being cuffed, it is the fault of the person resisting arrest not the police officer.

Apparently, that is what the GJ determined happened in this case and I agree with them.

Now go find a bad cop who deliberately used excessive physical force and as a result someone was killed and I'll agree with you that he should be punished to the fullest extent the law allows.