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

My favorite case for all you racist on here involves a upper middle class white man. He was my client. He was a late 40's year old 6 foot tall 140 lb (Maybe) conservative Christian man and owned some radio stations in Tennessee. He was also a hemophiliac aka bleeder. One of few that survived the 80's due to aids infected blood transfusions. (See or read And the band played on)

His son was military and lived in an nice apartment complex in Biloxi. He just had a baby which was the man's first grandson. He drove down from Tennessee to see his new grandson but got to the complex making better time then he anticipated about 5 am. He was driving a new 300zx I think. Since they had just gotten home from hospital he didnt want to risk waking the baby and his daughter-n-law so he just parked in the parking lot of the complex and waited in his car for 7 am. One of the idiot neighbors called the cops allegedly saying he might be drug dealer etc. Cops come to car, bang on the window and order him out of the car guns drawn. Problem is one cop orders him to put his hands on the wheel while the other orders him to open the door and get out hands up. Guns drawn on him by the way, He tries to explain to them he cant put both hands on the wheel and open the door which only enrages them more. He warns them he is a bleeder and begs them not to handle him roughly as it could kill him. Of course they drag him out of the car and rough him up. His crime nothing so they claim he resisted arrest or failed to comply with instructions. They changed it when the ADA realized didn't have any grounds for arrest. A bleeder, yeah right. Of course, he almost died.

By the way they offered to drop the charges if he agreed not to sue them. You can imagine my response. The cops didn't know what they did until I recreated the incident in the court room. Where they admitted it was impossible for him to comply with their dueling request. They were not evil and would have apologized if City attorney would have let them. They were just green right out of the academy. Instead of spending time with his grandson he spent two weeks in hospital, got 250k in medical bills and almost died.

So yes Virginia middle class white Republican Christians can be killed by cops too. Even the ones that own Christian radio stations.