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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>A few things from this article jump out:<br><ol><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who died after white police officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold'</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'A black man dies after a confrontation with a white policeman.'</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict white Officer Daniel Pantaleo, two officials said, who put African-American Eric Garner in a chokehold.'</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'In Garner's case, there can be little doubt what happened.</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Before he gasped what appeared to be his final breaths, someone hit record on a cell phone camera.'</span></li><li><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some eyewitnesses have said that Brown too made that gesture in surrender. But other witnesses contradicted them.</span><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No
video was rolling, so doubts over that and other details will always
hang over the moment that former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson
shot the unarmed teen.'</span></div></li></ol><br><BR>On point five (specifically the word 'doubts'), this is why Darren Wilson wouldn't be criminally convicted. He won't be found guilty in a civil trial either. Further I would contend that even if there was video of the shooting and Wilson shot Michael Brown while both arms / hands were raised, there still wouldn't be a conviction due to the sequence and the timing of how the events unfolded until the fatal shooting.<br><BR><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:05:44 -0800<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Deja Vu all over again . . .<br><br><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/justice/new-york-grand-jury-chokehold/index.html?hpt=hp_t1" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/03/justice/new-york-grand-jury-chokehold/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><strong style="padding:0px;"><h1 style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:600px;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">N.Y. cop not indicted in chokehold death</h1></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;">New York (CNN)</strong><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"><i style="padding:0px;">[Breaking news update, published at 2:39 p.m. ET]</i></strong></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A grand jury decided against an indictment Wednesday in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, who died after white police officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold, according to two law enforcement officials.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During his fatal police encounter, Garner raised both hands in the air and told the officers not to touch him. Seconds later, a video shows an officer behind him grab him in a chokehold and pull him to the sidewalk, rolling him onto his stomach.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Garner said repeatedly, his cries muffled into the pavement.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cause of Garner's death was "compression of neck (chokehold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police," the medical examiner's office has said. The death was ruled a homicide.</span></div><div><strong style="padding:0px;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="padding:0px;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Echoes of Ferguson: Will New York cop face charges in chokehold death?</strong></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A black man dies after a confrontation with a white policeman. Crowds take to the streets incensed, decrying police brutality. And a grand jury is called to hear the case.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The place is not Ferguson, and the case is not Michael Brown's. It's Staten Island, New York. And on Wednesday, a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict white Officer Daniel Pantaleo, two officials said,</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/20/justice/ny-chokehold-death/index.html" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">who put African-American Eric Garner in a chokehold</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The New York City Police Department prohibits the move.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I can't breathe! I can't breathe," Garner cried out after he went down on July 17. Seconds later, the 350-pound man, who suffered from asthma, lay motionless and unresponsive on the sidewalk. An ambulance carried him away on a stretcher.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was pronounced dead that day at age 43.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police had suspected him of illegal vending. He had been arrested on the same suspicion two months prior and had a lengthy criminal record, including 30 arrests.</span></div><div><strong style="padding:0px;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="padding:0px;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brown and Garner</strong></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parallels mark the deaths of both black men, starting with crimes they were suspected of -- Brown allegedly stole cigars from a convenience store; Garner was allegedly selling cigarettes tax-free.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another similarity that has become the hallmark of protests in Ferguson: Garner put his hands up in the air, as the crook of Pantaleo's elbow tightened around his throat.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some eyewitnesses have said that Brown too made that gesture in surrender. But other witnesses contradicted them.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No video was rolling, so doubts over that and other details will always hang over the moment that former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot the unarmed teen.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That has led President Obama to call for law officers all over the country to record their operations with body cameras.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Garner's case, there can be little doubt what happened.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before he gasped what appeared to be his final breaths, someone hit record on a cell phone camera. The details of his takedown spread through the Internet as the video went viral.</span></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;">Wilson an</strong><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;">d</strong><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"> Pantaleo</strong></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wilson argued before the Missouri grand jury that he shot Brown -- who he alleged tried to wrest away his gun then charged at him -- in self-defense.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the Staten Island cell phone video, Garner did not go after Pantaleo but had his back to him; the officer jumped him from behind then tackled him to the ground.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The New York City</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/01/justice/new-york-choke-hold-death/index.html" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">medical examiner has ruled Garner's death a homicide</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. The cause of death was "compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the medical examiner also listed acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity and hypertensive cardiovascular disease as contributing factors in Garner's death.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Ferguson, Wilson went into hiding over death threats and kept his status of police officer but was placed on leave. He resigned shortly after the grand jury decision.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the chokehold, Pantaleo was put on modified assignment and stripped of his badge and gun amid the investigation, and</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/us/new-york-chokehold-death-training/index.html" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">the NYPD's commissioner ordered an extensive review of training procedures</a><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An attorney for Pantaleo said his client testified for approximately two hours on November 21 in front of the grand jury.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"He was anxious and anxiety-filled prior to that," said Stuart London. "He is cautiously optimistic and knows that his fate is in their hands now."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two lawsuits have previously been filed against Pantaleo. The plaintiffs in both suits allege false arrest, unlawful imprisonment, civil rights violations and other charges.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One suit from 2013 was dismissed in January 2014, while the second, from February 2014, remains open.</span></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;">Ferguson an</strong><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;">d</strong><strong style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);padding:0px;"> New York</strong></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In both Ferguson and New York City, mostly African-American protesters took to the streets for weeks after both men died to decry police violence.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Demonstrators in New York have called the police response during Garner's arrest excessive and criminal, but during protests, the contact between police and demonstrators has been largely cordial.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The NYPD appeared genuinely sympathetic to the marchers, giving everyone wide latitude to voice their frustrations," said photographer Joel Graham, who took pictures of a demonstration Upper Manhattan.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He found the demonstrators to be equally peaceful.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This crowd was composed of good, well-meaning people who understood that peace was the only option and were adamant that things remain calm over Eric's death," he said.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Missing were the tear gas canisters, assault rifles, armored vehicles and the lootings and flying bottles that marred the St. Louis suburb in the wake of Brown's death.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the Missouri grand jury declined to charge Wilson, violence returned to Ferguson, as cars were set on fire.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Staten Island, although it's not certain, the announcement of the grand jury decision is expected before the end of the week.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Monday, officials there met with New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton to discuss the impending decision and the borough's preparedness for reaction to it.</span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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