The chokehold death of Eric Garner in NYPD custody wasn’t “a black-and-white thing,” his widow said Sunday — a stunning admission that breaks sharply from lawmakers and protesters who have seized on the racial aspect of the case.
Esaw Snipes said she believed her husband was “murdered unjustly,” but said skin color wasn’t a factor behind his fatal arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes on Staten Island last summer.
The statement flies in the face of demands by Snipes and others — including the Rev. Al Sharpton — for the civil rights investigation announced by US Attorney General Eric Holder last week.
“I don’t even feel like it’s a black-and-white thing, honestly, you know, in my opinion,” Snipes told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I really don’t feel like it’s a black-and-white thing. I feel like it’s just something that he continued to do and the police knew. You know, they knew.”
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It's really hard to claim race was an issue when the sergeant who was on the scene overseeing the arrest was African American. The video we see, has her edited out. I read somewhere that the video has been edited out to not include others who were filming and taking pictures too. This is why the sides of the video are blacked out. Evidently the grand jurors saw the whole unedited video and other videos taken by other people on the scene.
ReplyDelete"Flies in the face... " in civil rights isn't just about race
ReplyDeleteIt's not about race, people, it's about committing crimes. Kind of simple once you look at it.
ReplyDeleteHey, but let's just pull the race card, anyway.
no its not about race,its about 5 on 1,after they got him on the ground there was no need to continue choking him,they could have held him down and put cuffs on him.anyone that can't see that is a idiot.
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