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December 28, 2014

Is Zero-Tolerance Policing Worth Chokehold Deaths?

By ROBERT WILBUR and MARTHA ROSENBERG

How did New York City policing lead to Eric Garner's death?

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Eric Garner arrest last summer
Eric Garner arrest last summer
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"Broken Windows" Policing and the Violation of Civil Liberties

Many in the U.S. were horrified at the death of Eric Garner, a 300-plus pound, asthmatic, diabetic African-American man with sleep apnea and six children last summer. Garner was arrested for selling loose cigarettes on a Staten Island street and when he resisted being handcuffed, an arresting officer applied a chokehold. Though the maneuver is theoretically forbidden in the police manual of procedure, it brought Garner to the pavement, whereupon other police piled in, compressing his chest. A bystander filmed the whole episode on a cell phone and Garner can be heard crying "I can't breathe" eleven times. He died shortly thereafter at Richmond University Medical Center.

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Submitter: Martha Rosenberg

Submitters Bio:

Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by Random House. Rosenberg has appeared on CSPAN and NPR and lectured at medical schools and at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library.



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