Mistigram: Thanks to @horsenburger for using his masterful #teletext skillz to keep the focus on this critical theme. “#EricGarner’s killing was another brutal act by police filmed and posted on line. Eric was objecting to yet another stop by undercover police for the capital crime of selling loose cigarettes. It’s the case of yet another very large black man being killed in the street in an unnecessary show of violence.
There’s more to this story, such as the man who filmed the video being victimised and eventually arrested & jailed after taking a plea to stop his mother being sent to prison.
Again, no legal action taken against the officer involved at the time, but he was forced to resign five years later after the result of a civil action which awarded the Garner family over $4 million for Eric’s death (this was ruled a Homicide at the time).” #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterUK #PoliceBrutality https://instagr.am/p/CBLfKqMn9Nb/
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