ERIC GARNER, Killed after illegal chokehold by NYPD Daniel Pantaleo, still on the job

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    Members of Stop Mass Incarceration and other demonstrators gathered at the NYC side of the Staten Island Ferry yesterday to remember Eric Garner, the Gentle Giant and he was named by a friend, who was dies on July 17th 2014 after being put into a chokehold by NYPD Daniel Pantaleo, while 5 other NYPD piled on top of him. Eric Garner repeatedly said, “I Can’t Breathe” 11 times while his pleas were ignored. The incident was filmed for 7 minutes by Ramsey Orta, who knew Eric Garner. No CPR or aid was given to Eric Garner. When EMS showed, no 02 was given or CPR.
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    Members of Stop Mass Incarceration holding signs and a banner at the Staten Island ferry terminal in NYC yesterday.
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    A closer shot of members of SMIN holding signs of Eric Garner feeding his newborn while demonstrators chanted, “INDICT, CONVICT, SEND KILLER PANTALEO TO JAIL, THE WHO DAM SYSTEM IS GUILTY AS HELL”.
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    Members of Stop Mass Incarceration Network holding banner of the faces of many unarmed innocent lives stolen by police violence. FROM A SITE ENTITLED, HOW MANY PEOLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY POLICE? by Massachusetts Cop Block How many people have been killed by the police over the past few decades? It may seem shocking, but the only honest answer to this question is that no one really knows. The government is very good at tracking the number of police officers who are killed while at work. Every year, the FBI publishes its Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) report which includes a fairly accurate estimate of the number of police officers who were killed the previous year. UNFORTUNATELY,THE GOV IS NOT VERY GOOD AT TRACKING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED BY POLICE. I was able to find government research with some information about the number of people killed by the police for every year from 1976 up through 2011. Unfortunately, as we will see, all the estimates are afflicted by under-reporting. After reviewing the research, I found that from 1976 through 2011, police killed at least 14,012 people.
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    Carl Dix of Stop Mass Incarceration Network and the Revolutionary Communist Party, associated with Bob Avakian, he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. In 1970, he was one of six GI’s who refused orders to go to Vietnam. This was the largest mass refusal of orders to Vietnam during that war. Dix served two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary. Carl begins, “One year ago today, we Saw police murder Eric Garner. We saw it because it was caught on video. The whole world saw this. We saw them choke him, we heard him say, ‘I can’t breathe’ 11 times”. “The court system told us that our eyes had lied to us, that we didn’t hear what we heard, that there was no criminal activity on the part of those murdering pigs. THAT IS A SIGN OF AN ILLEGITIMATE SYSTEM”.
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    Noche Diaz of Stop Mass Incarceration, “this should cause to indict Daniel Pantaleo. I had to be in court this morning facing charges for leading people to call out the murder by police like Daniel Pantleo. So we have sufficient cause to indict this whole God dam system is Guilty as Hell”. “We need to salute and celebrate the fact that we have seen people begin to stand up to this starting in Ferguson. People drew a line and said, ‘No, not this time'”
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    Reverend Dr. Robert L. Brasher from the West Park Presbyterian Church on 86th Street and Amsterdam Ave came out and spoke out on behalf of Eric Garner. He called Eric Garner a “Family Man”. For the simple act of trying to feed and protect his family, he had his life taken away from him.” “We also know that the people who were responsible for that were set free, no responsibility whatsoever. In the past year nothing has changed”. “In the month of November another 62 people had their lives taken. People are beginning to say , “No More”.
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    “It’s time to gather together a coalition of Revolutionaries. Revolutionary students, Revolutionary workers, Revolutionary people from the streets and Revolutionary people of Faith”.

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    Travis Morales of Stop Mass Incarceration Network,, “As of today, 1,092 people have been killed by police across this country. This is just in 11 months and a few days. This is an epidemic, of the police murdering overwhelmingly focusing on murdering black & Latino people”.

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    Brother Marcus of Stop Mass Inc. starts with, “I Can’t Breathe, I Can’t Breathe”, 11 times while others repeated. “People, It’s time you wake up from the slumber. They put you in a trance. They have you believing that the police are all good. If they were good they would have turned in the cops that are killing people”.

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    Shot of sunset with the Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal NYC side just prior to boarding the ferry to SI where Eric Garner was murdered at 200 Bay Street.

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    Marching through the streets on Staten Island to the site of Eric Garner’s murder last July 17th in front of 200 Bay Street, chanting, “Indict, convict, send killer Pantaleo to jail, the whole dam system is guilty as hell”, where more supporters were also paying respects.
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    “Aunt Shirley” Belton reminding people that the only one arrested was the young man who took the video of the murder of Eric Garner, Ramsey Orta. Orta has been arrested multiple times in retaliation, he says, for taking the video of the fatal chokehold of Eric Garner.
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    Joshua Lopez, who’s Uncle, John Callado, was shot and killed by NYPD while breaking up a fight involving and undercover NYPD cop who did not identify himself, in Sept 2011.

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    “Jeanette”, a friend of Eric Garners, who gave him the name, Gentle Giant, came running out of her apartment the day of Eric Garner’s death when he was already in the ambulance and police were getting into the ambulance with him. I could see no one was working on resuscitating him. “That was my Teddy Bear”, she said.

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    The child, Legacy Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter being held by her mother, Jewel Miller.
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    Memorial for Eric Garner at the spot where he was killed, 200 Bay Street after an illegal chokehold was put on him by NYPD Daniel Pantaleo and 6 other cops.

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Author: Cat April Watters

On a Truth Diet! Purging myself of all the LIES from Society.