Swarms of protesters bring New York City streets to a standstill after jury clears cop in Eric Garner death

[superbeets]

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Checking in: A protester at Grand Central Terminal appears to check social media during the highly visible protest

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Closer: The protester leans to one side, holding his cell phone aloft while a man next to him also checks his

In some, a majority of participants at events in highly public places such as New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the White House or busy city intersections, are glued to their touchscreens.
The die-ins are designed to raise awareness and express outrage at the cases of Michael Brown, who was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, by officer Darren Wilson in August.
In November a grand jury declined to indict the officer, a decision which prompted a tide of outrage from civil rights activists, who made calls for legal reform.
Eric Garner, a man killed on Staten Island, New York, by the NYPD, who put him in a choke-hold this summer, has also been incorporated in many of the protests.

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Playing 'dead': Three students in this corridor at one of Penyslvania State University's campuses didn't get the memo about laying still

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Spotted: Two protesters on the ground can be seen bathed in the light of their devices, with the Washington Monument in the background

 

[superbeets]

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Focus! Three students in Washington, left, and another at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, fall victim to temptation

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Perhaps they are checking train times: A wide-angle view of the Grand Central protest shows seven phone-using participants

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Another three: More protesters in Middleton, Pennsylvania, take some time from protesting police brutality to examine their devices

 

[neverbend]

Exactly.

But personal responsibility isn't something liberals believe in.

At the end of the day, Garner died because of a series of poor judgments on his part leading up to this incident.

Blame him as well as the Big Govt statists who need these draconian taxes to pay for their corrupt unions and bureaucracies.

Here is my the solution! NYC has more black cops than white cops. Have all the black cops patrol black neighborhoods so when someone in the ghetto areas gets out of hand let the black cops handle the problem. In that scenario no imagined bigotry could by trumpeted
by the likes of Al Sharpton. In fact it would actually put charlatans like Sharpton out of business. The only problem would be much more crime and murder in the black neighborhoods, but isn't that what they are asking for getting the evil whites cops out of there turf.
After a year of this they'ed be begging the white cops to come back!!!!!!!

 

[neverbend]

The clown show is getting worse every day!

 

[SheriffJoe]

neverbend, excellent idea! Only black cops should patrol the 97% Democrat ghettos. It won't be long before those areas turn into something resembling those French Muslim "no-go zones"...but hey, give'em what they want! You can bet the Al Sharptons won't go near the slumholes.

Do any of these 'protesters' have jobs?

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[Dave007inVegas]

You're a steaming, fly infested, lying sack of shit, the Medical Examiner said the death was a HOMICIDE, scumbag, that ain't dying from a heart attack, you're so busy cramming your head in the sand-or up your ass by keeping tabs on what happens to the guy who filmed the killing a month later-you can't see what's going on. Do you have an explanation why so many Righties have expressed outrage, Genius?

The grand jury didn’t agree with the ME. Case closed.

You can spew your fake outrage all you want, it ain’t going to change a damn thing.

 

[SheriffJoe]

The grand jury didn’t agree with the ME. Case closed.

You can spew your fake outrage all you want, it ain’t going to change a damn thing.

Dabitch is pissing and moaning because the libs haven't figured out how to pin this on Republicans.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Hey, maybe capitalism is the REAL culprit here!

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Demonstrators stage 'die in' at NYC Apple store, Macy's

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/05/protests-apple-store-new-york/19975797/

NEW YORK -- Protesters staged a "die in" Friday night in an Apple store on Fifth Avenue and in Macy's at Herald Square.

Hundreds of people angry over police treatment of African-American men crowded the street outside the Apple store, and some made their way through the store's large glass doors.

Dozens staged a "die-in" in New York.(Photo: Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY)

Once inside, the protesters stood in circles and chanted while store employees and customers silently snapped photos.

Zandir Santos, 30, of Brooklyn, relished in the idea that protesters had disrupted life at an Apple store and a Macy's in New York. The filmmaker said this is a pivotal time in American history and that police must change how they treat people.

"The CEO of Apple knows we shut his store down--that means capitalist America is going to take us seriously," he said. "We are going to shake up your business and we want to hit you where it hurts. "

Occupy Wall Street....they're baaaaaaaaaack! :missingte

 

[SheriffJoe]

Just to review:

Eric Garner died because he resisted arrest. Period.

He was confronted by a number of NYPD for being suspected of selling black market cigarettes, and for robbing the city of the exorbitant left wing taxes placed on the sale of evil "Big Tobacco"

Most of these protesters without jobs and living off food stamps are "playing dead" disrupting evil capitalist symbols like Apple while simultaneously texting the entire sad spectacle on their iPhones.

Folks, this is how 'Obama' became your 'President'

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[Dave007inVegas]

Hey, maybe capitalism is the REAL culprit here!

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Demonstrators stage 'die in' at NYC Apple store, Macy's

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/05/protests-apple-store-new-york/19975797/

NEW YORK -- Protesters staged a "die in" Friday night in an Apple store on Fifth Avenue and in Macy's at Herald Square.

Hundreds of people angry over police treatment of African-American men crowded the street outside the Apple store, and some made their way through the store's large glass doors.

Dozens staged a "die-in" in New York.(Photo: Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY)

Once inside, the protesters stood in circles and chanted while store employees and customers silently snapped photos.

Zandir Santos, 30, of Brooklyn, relished in the idea that protesters had disrupted life at an Apple store and a Macy's in New York. The filmmaker said this is a pivotal time in American history and that police must change how they treat people.

"The CEO of Apple knows we shut his store down--that means capitalist America is going to take us seriously," he said. "We are going to shake up your business and we want to hit you where it hurts. "

Occupy Wall Street....they're baaaaaaaaaack! :missingte

I’m disappointed there was no looting.

Bunch of slackers IMO.

 

[Dafinch]

Bottom line: resisting arrest is a great way to get yourself killed.

The jury obviously agreed, while the race-baiters are doing what they always do.

For selling loose cigarettes(not "black market" like you hilariously lied, yet again), you lied about that, not to mention the cause of death being a "heart attack," and him "resisting arrest" is not agreed on by virtually anybody else-republicans included. You STILL haven't explained why so many Repubs were outraged, Scumbag, nor have you explained why the killer felt compelled to apologize. It is absolutely guaranteed that prick is gonna get fired, and virtually guaranteed that the Feds will indict his ass.

 

[Dafinch]

The grand jury didn’t agree with the ME. Case closed.

You can spew your fake outrage all you want, it ain’t going to change a damn thing.

Your stupidity never ceases to amaze me. "Case closed?" Like I said in the previous post, it is absolutely guaranteed that prick is gonna get fired, and virtually guaranteed that the Feds will indict his ass, then you can crawl back under your rock like you always do when you're left with cum on your chin and a goofy look on your face.

 

[Seymour]

This is just the occupy wall street semi socialist crowd and nothing else

 

[superbeets]

Police officers in the NYPD have hit back at outraged protesters furious at the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died in a police chokehold, saying he brought it upon himself.
Union officials and police supporters have seized on findings showing that Garner's asthma and obesity contributed to his death, and say they feel 'thrown under the bus' by demonstrations and politicians.
They also said that more people should have been pointing out that Garner was wrong to resist arrest when confronted by officers in State Island, New York City, this July.



Policemen say the outcry has left them feeling betrayed and demonized by everyone from the president and the mayor to throngs of protesters who scream at them on the street.
'Police officers feel like they are being thrown under the bus,' said Patrick Lynch, president of the police union.





In private and on internet chat rooms, officers have said they feel demoralized, misunderstood and 'all alone'.
Some are advising each other that the best way to preserve their careers is to stop making arrests like that of Garner's, in defiance of the NYPD's campaign of cracking down on minor 'quality of life' offenses as a way to discourage serious crime.
'Everyone is just demonizing the police,' said Maki Haberfeld, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of criminal justice.
'But police follow orders and laws. Nobody talks about the responsibility of the politicians to explain to the community why quality-of-life enforcement is necessary.'

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Your stupidity never ceases to amaze me. "Case closed?" Like I said in the previous post, it is absolutely guaranteed that prick is gonna get fired, and virtually guaranteed that the Feds will indict his ass, then you can crawl back under your rock like you always do when you're left with cum on your chin and a goofy look on your face.

In order for the Feds to indict him they have to prove it was racially motivated. Good luck with that.

Just like when the Feds were going to indict Wilson. How’s that working out for you?

You’re just a raging fool.

 

[SheriffJoe]

‘I DON’T FEEL LIKE IT’S A BLACK AND WHITE THING’ – ERIC GARNER’S WIFE DENIES RACISM A FACTOR IN DEATH

Posted on Dec 7, 2014 at 10:20 AM in Politics | 18 Comments
By soopermexican

Esaw Garner, the wife of the man killed while being apprehended by the police in New York City, still holds to the opinion that the policeman needs to be put on trial, but at least she admitted that it had nothing to do with racism on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”

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Of course, not a minute later, professional idiot Al Sharpton brings up racism because his brain can’t possibly think of anything else.

Read more: http://therightscoop.com/i-dont-fee...enies-racism-a-factor-in-death/#ixzz3LEOHRsse

 

[Dafinch]

In order for the Feds to indict him they have to prove it was racially motivated. Good luck with that.

Just like when the Feds were going to indict Wilson. How’s that working out for you?

You’re just a raging fool.

Ahhh, yes, because the Brown case is practically identical to the Wilson case(and, btw, Federal indictments don't usually come within days, asshole): one has a video of a guy being killed-according to the medical examiner-by an illegal choke by the cop after the victim said 11 times that he couldn't breathe, while the other has none of those things. You are a fucking moron of epic proportions.