Source: http://ift.tt/hFWySe - Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, said Wednesday that he was shocked by a grand jury's decision not to indict a New York City police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, describing Garner's death as "criminally negligent homicide." "I think it is clearly a case for criminally negligent homicide," Napolitano said during a Wednesday segment of " The Hugh Hewitt Show ." "This is not Ferguson, Missouri," Napolitano continued. "This is not somebody wrestling for your gun, this is not where you shoot or be shot at. This is choking to death a mentally impaired, grossly obese person whose only crime was selling cigarettes without collecting taxes on them. This does not call for deadly force by any stretch of the imagination." (It was not clear why Napolitano described Garner as "mentally impaired.") Napolitano said he was taken aback by the grand jury's decision, which was made public on Wednesday. He added that the decision suggests Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan never wanted an indictment to happen. "If any DA wants an indictment, he can get one," Napolitano said. "The cliche is that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich." Garner, 43, died July 17 in Staten Island, New York while he was being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. A bystander's video of the arrest shows New York City police Officer Daniel Pantaleo appearing to put Garner in a chokehold, a move that is proh
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Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, said Wednesday that he was shocked by a grand jury's decision not to indict a New York City police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, describing Garner's death as "criminally negligent homicide." "I think it is clearly a case for criminally negligent homicide," Napolitano said during a Wednesday segment of " The Hugh Hewitt Show ." "This is not Ferguson, Missouri," Napolitano continued. "This is not somebody wrestling for your gun, this is not where you shoot or be shot at. This is choking to death a mentally impaired, grossly obese person whose only crime was selling cigarettes without collecting taxes on them. This does not call for deadly force by any stretch of the imagination." (It was not clear why Napolitano described Garner as "mentally impaired.") Napolitano said he was taken aback by the grand jury's decision, which was made public on Wednesday. He added that the decision suggests Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan never wanted an indictment to happen. "If any DA wants an indictment, he can get one," Napolitano said. "The cliche is that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich." Garner, 43, died July 17 in Staten Island, New York while he was being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. A bystander's video of the arrest shows New York City police Officer Daniel Pantaleo appearing to put Garner in a chokehold, a move that is prohfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1I1FDIO
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