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re: Eric Garner police record

Posted on 12/9/14 at 10:46 pm to
Posted by lsu480
Downtown Scottsdale
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 12/9/14 at 10:46 pm to
You didn't answer my question. Was he really never convicted for any of the 30 arrests? I honestly don't know but that would be messed up...
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
125684 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:20 pm to
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Info to explain his complaint in the video about "not selling anything," etc, would be fine.

And if he didn't have any actual cigarettes on him, that would be presented as well.
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
125684 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:23 pm to
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was accidentally killed


Yup. Accidentally homicided. I agree.
Posted by texashorn
Member since May 2008
13122 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:32 pm to
You seem hung up on "homicide" as though it assigns fault. In this case, it's a medical term, not a legal one.

There's justifiable homicide, you know that, right?
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
125684 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:41 pm to
Yes. There is accidental homicide. Asthma is not accidental homicide.
Posted by onmymedicalgrind
Nunya
Member since Dec 2012
11475 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:49 pm to
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You seem hung up on "homicide" as though it assigns fault.

No, he's rightfully hung up on homicide because posters keep insinuating he died primarily because of his poor health, as if he was probably going to die later that day anyways.
Posted by Iosh
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Member since Dec 2012
18941 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:53 pm to
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You didn't answer my question. Was he really never convicted for any of the 30 arrests? I honestly don't know but that would be messed up...
I can't find any public record of convictions, only arrests, which mirrors the police leak to the WSJ (it's a police leak because the WSJ source included juvenile records, whic aren't public).

Granted, I'm only searching third-party background aggregators because the primary source (NY courts website) charges a ridiculous $65 per search. But CriminalSearches has bupkis, and BeenVerified shows a bunch of "nolle prosequi."

Given that, and the fact that I can find nothing from any source, even in the fever swamps of right-wing news media, discussing any convictions, I'm 95% sure he hasn't been. The other 5% being maybe he has one or two convictions on the cigarette charges only and those aren't showing up in the aggregators for whatever reason.
This post was edited on 12/9/14 at 11:54 pm
Posted by texashorn
Member since May 2008
13122 posts
Posted on 12/9/14 at 11:53 pm to
Ahh, ok. That's what I get for not reading every page of the thread. Next time...
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
125684 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:00 am to
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police leak because the WSJ source included juvenile records, whic aren't public


Is this legal? Leaking juvenile records? There were some rumors here in STL about Brown's juvie records but there were no official leaks of any information that might be considered prejudicial.
Posted by Iosh
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:15 am to
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Is this legal? Leaking juvenile records?
Of course not, but who's going to investigate that? The cops?
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
49830 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:28 am to
He is already dead.
Posted by ALWho
Earth
Member since Oct 2014
612 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 5:18 am to
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Mayor DeBlasio


Pronounced "sack/of-shite",
Shut, can I type "shite"?, shite for brains mayor. He makes shite look good, like a pudding pop.
This post was edited on 12/10/14 at 5:32 am
Posted by trackfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19691 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 8:49 am to
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If you don't hold law enforcement to a standard when dealing with Everyone, pretty soon they won't be held to a standard when dealing with Anyone. As we've seen over and over.

There's a lot of truth in this statement.
Posted by cwill
Member since Jan 2005
54755 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 9:17 am to
From your link headline:

quote:

Staten Island DA Didn't Ask Garner Grand Jury to Consider Reckless Endangerment Charge: Source


I just don't think the DA would leave out a lesser charge if a regular citizen had been the aggressor.
Posted by DaBike
Member since Jan 2008
10445 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:21 pm to
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They may have been justified in arresting him, but they could have gone about it without choking him out. And his previous record is irrelevant in this instance.


Why isn't it relevant? Garner said he was resiting and wanted the police to go away and stop bothering him so much. We now know why he was bothered so much.
Posted by Iosh
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Member since Dec 2012
18941 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:27 pm to
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We now know why he was bothered so much.
Do we?
Posted by roygu
Member since Jan 2004
11718 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 12:28 pm to
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they could have gone about it without choking him out.



Are you sure that is what happened? I read that he died of other causes while in the Ambulance?
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
125684 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:15 pm to
Homifrickingcide.

Jesus Christ.
Posted by bencoleman
RIP 7/19
Member since Feb 2009
37887 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 5:27 pm to
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You try to act like a tough guy on a message board to compensate for your physical inadequacies





This made me laugh, you're still a dickhead
Posted by WalkingTurtles
Alexandria
Member since Jan 2013
5913 posts
Posted on 12/10/14 at 5:32 pm to
I would have definitely stopped choking him sometime after he was on the ground and while he was saying "I can't breathe". Cop will get his issue when the Feds investigate. Garner family will get paid. Cops wanted to enforce some cigarette sales tax liberal BS, so I hope the negative publicity and money that will be lost in lawsuits that enforcing that $6 a pack was worth it.
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