10-year anniv of Eric 'I can't breathe' Garner

'I can't breathe': young Twitter poet gives new voice to Eric Garner | The Guardian

Illinois cops release bodycam video of when they shot Black woman who called for help | CNN

'I can't breathe': Eric Garner remembered on the 10th anniversary of his [police brutality] chokehold death | News | tribdem.com

Hey, Blacks, don't want to be pulled over?

It seems to be a truism of this American life (in the USA rather than other parts of the Americas) that police abuse social minorities.

If a killer kop wants to kill, who's going to stop him, the corrupt court system that does everything it can to shield him from successful prosecution?

• Disgusting police activity: beating, murder (July 2024)

White females are a minority? - If I feel like it.

Police know they have wide latitude to kill, beat, and otherwise abuse poor, disenfranchised, dark skinned, or other socially subordinated groups at will. Blacks and Natives seem to get the worst of it, if mainstream news reports are to be believed. And every time another outrageous case of police brutality, implicit bias, or outright racism hits the news, there are protests. They are usually met with a paramilitary response.

The protected classes back the police so that they get to feeling/knowing who they work for. Police protect their protectors and abuse their abusers. It is part of the "system" under which we live.

I Can't Breathe (Matt Taibbi)

Ten years ago, police on the East Coast thought it was reasonable to choke Eric Gardner to death. Or, say, it wasn't reasonable, nothing was going to happen if one or more did it. So they did.

Though he yelled, "I can't breathe" as he was being choked to death in an illegal chokehold, the police figured they could always say, "He was breathing enough to say he couldn't breathe" as they smirked.

• From George Floyd to Sonya Massey and too many others to mention, these racist police crimes have continued to fill coffins and the coffers of Police Protection League chapters

Eric Garner remembered on 10th anniversary of his chokehold death [at hands of killer cop]

(africanews) Euronews is funded in whole or in part by the European Union. July 18, 2024: It has been 10 years since the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of [killer] New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry. [It's as if the officer were a tree, his arm a noose, and this a modern lynching.] #AfNews Read more: africanews.com/2024/07/18...

• Police killing of Black Eric Garner
• I can't breathe: On the third anniversary of the death of Eric Garner • GBCS (umcjustice.org)
• Editors, Wisdom Quarterly