It will not surprise you to learn that for many years, the cops were "tried" in a court presided over by NYPD employees. Over and over again, New York cops break the law and skip away without consequences. The NYPD has his back, and he faced no meaningful consequences for a yearslong crime spree under cover of a badge. This is a cop with 46 brutality allegations in his record, five lawsuit settlements costing NYC taxpayers $200k, and multiple incidents of illegal chokehold use. They don't fire repeat offenders like Officer Omar Habib, who uses chokeholds to punish nonviolent, nonresistign city residents for calling the police "fucking Keystone Kops," like some kind of WWE roid-rage case who sees red when someone calls him names. So the Civilian Complaint Review Board can find that NYPD officers broke the law and used a chokehold, but the NYPD gets to decide what their punishment is, and they have not fired a single officer for breaking the law since Garner's murder. It's an absolutely inescapable conclusion. NYPD and NYC city officials let them do it because they don't care if the NYPD kills pepole. NYPD officers use chokeholds because they don't care if they kill people. Each failure has its own unique characteristics, but still, a unified story emerges. In "Still Can’t Breathe," by Propublica's Topher Sanders and The CITY's Yoav Gonen, we get a history of those failed initiatives, in brutal, eye-watering detail. Once again, it's been 28 years since the NYPD banned its officers from using chokeholds, but officers routinely break this rule, despite many initiatives and resolutions intended to eliminate this lethal "submission hold." "I Can't Breathe" is Matt Taibbi's outstanding book on the murder, it really conveys just how brutal the chokehold is and why it was banned by the NYPD 28 years ago, and how its routine use today symbolizes the lawlessness of law enforcement.Ĭhokeholds were big news in 2020, after the broad-daylight murder of George Floyd who was slowly, cruelly, deliberately executed before a crowd of horrified onlookers by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current readingĮric Garner wasn't the first Black man to be murdered in broad daylight by NYPD officers using illegal chokeholds, but his death was a flashpoint for police impunity and corruption, and the chokehold became a symbol for all lethal police violence.YMCA, Trump edition: "I said old man, get your Ass.Rolling back the Trump rollback: Administrative competence has its uses.NYPD can't stop choking Black men: A postmortem on many postmortems.
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