of the neck in it. it describes what happened but yet the grand jury couldn t find it. i was struck by a daily news interview with the young man who shot the video. he said he testified for ten minutes. the officer testified for over two hours. he said the grand juries were indifferent to what he had to say. the only questions they had were about eric garner s actions, why was he there, what was he doing? i think the fact that people even with the videotape can t bring themselves to see, not a crime, but the possibility of a crime, something worthy of going to trial, does lead you to ask, no matter where you are on the ideological spectrum, if you can t get an indictment here, where can you get an indictment? and lawrence, lawrence, conservatives should be going crazy over this. yes, they should. there s no greater power that we entrust to the state than the power to take liberty and life. and to see it misused and abused in this way in case after case
yet the grand jury couldn t find it. i was struck by a daily news interview with the young man who shot the video. he said he testified for ten minutes. the officer testified for over two hours. he said the grand juries were indifferent to what he had to say. the only questions they had were about eric garner s actions, why was he there, what was he doing? i think the fact that people even with the videotape can t bring themselves to see, not a crime, but the possibility of a crime, something worthy of going to trial, does lead you to ask, no matter where you are on the ideological spectrum, if you can t get an indictment here, where can you get an indictment? and lawrence, lawrence, conservatives should be going crazy over this. yes, they should. there s no greater power that we entrust to the state than the power to take liberty and life. and to see it misused and abused in this way in case after case after case should be driving conservatives just crazy.
to blame for anything, someone had to be blamed for new york city s reaction and the world s reaction to watching eric garner s life snuffed out on video. what police officers felt yesterday after that press conference is that they were thrown under the bus, that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protecting our sons and daughters and the mayor was behind microphones like this, throwing them under the bus. patrick lynch was referring to the most personal aspect of mayor de blasio s comments yesterday. the mayor has a biracial son named dante who president obama says reminds him of himself when he was a teenager. here is what the mayor said that so mor fied the head of the police union.
tightly the way it s supposed to so you can t breathe? that s all that happened, the classic seat belt maneuver. that s what the union leader did today, stood in front of the a microphone and rewrote a chokehold to a seat belt maneuver. he s willing to do that, stand up there and say anything to defend the indefensible whenever necessary. but as is customary, patrick lynch was not content to depend his officer in trouble. he needed someone to attack, since his police officer was not to blame for anything, someone had to be blamed for new york city s reaction and the world s reaction to watching eric garner s life snuffed out on video. what police officers felt yesterday after that press
subject of a grand jury investigation. never investigated by the internal affairs department, never sued for violating the rights of citizens. here was the union leader s description of the chokehold that we ve all seen that he said today was not a chokehold. a chokehold is directly to the neck and brought to the ground that restricts your video. if you look at video impassionately, it was a seat belt or takedown maneuver. one arm was under his under arm and another under his shoulder. remember, a shorter police officer bringing down a large man to the ground. and when he could release that seat belt maneuver, he did. see? that s not a chokehold. that s not what you saw. it s a seattle belt maneuver. you know how your seattle bet wraps around your neck really