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   Will we see niggers rioting in New York?   
      
   Wait and see.  De Blasio says he'll thump your nigger heads if   
   you impede emergency traffic.   
      
   A New York City grand jury has declined to indict a white police   
   officer in the case of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old unarmed black   
   man who died July 17 in a police chokehold.   
      
   The grand jury found "no reasonable cause" to indict officer   
   Daniel Pantaleo, who was attempting to arrest Garner for   
   allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.   
      
   Amid crowds gathering tonight in protest in Manhattan and   
   growing discord on social media about the decision, the Justice   
   Department is opening a federal inquiry into Garner's death, a   
   federal official confirmed Wednesday.   
      
   President Obama said the decision will spark strong reaction   
   from the public, especially in the wake of a grand jury decision   
   in Missouri last week not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the   
   shooting death of unarmed Michael Brown.   
      
   "There was a decision that came out today by a grand jury not to   
   indict police officers who had interacted with an individual   
   named Eric Garner in New York City -- all of which was caught on   
   video tape and speaks to the larger issues that we've been   
   talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last   
   year and, sadly, for decades," Obama said.   
      
   "And that is the concern on the part of too many minority   
   communities that law enforcement is not working with them and   
   dealing with them in a fair way."   
      
   The medical examiner had ruled Garner's death a homicide.State   
   charges could have ranged from murder to reckless endangerment.   
      
   Garner, who had asthma, could be heard on video shouting, "I   
   can't breathe" at least eight times as Pantaleo takes him down   
   in what appears to be a chokehold, an action the New York Police   
   Department prohibits. He died in a hospital hours later.   
      
   "Oh, my God, are you serious?" Esaw Garner, Eric Garner's widow,   
   told The (New York) Daily News. "I'm very disappointed. You can   
   see in the video that he (the cop) was dead wrong!"   
      
   Family lawyer Jonathan Moore said he "actually astonished based   
   on the evidence of the videotape, and the medical examiner, that   
   this grand jury at this time wouldn't indict for anything."   
      
   Garner's family scheduled a press conference with civil rights   
   leader Al Sharpton for Wednesday night.   
      
   New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he spoke with Attorney   
   General Eric Holder, who pledged that the federal government   
   would investigate the matter and that local U.S. Attorney   
   Loretta Lynch would oversee it.   
      
   Lynch has been nominated to succeed Holder as attorney general   
   and if confirmed by the Senate would become the first African   
   American woman to hold the office.   
      
   De Blasio said he'd also met with Ben Garner, Eric Garner's   
   father, and said the elder Garner was in "unspeakable pain." He   
   added, "No family should have to go through what the Garner   
   family went through."   
      
   The city, the country and the justice system are dealing with   
   "centuries of racism," the mayor said.   
      
   De Blasio made reference to similar cases around the nation,   
   including the recent death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in   
   Cleveland, shot by police after being spotted with what turned   
   out to be a toy gun.   
      
   "All of these pains add up and demand of us action," he said.   
      
   NYC Public Advocate Letitia James called for the grand jury   
   records in the Garner case to be unsealed.   
      
   "This has to stop," James said. "Every New Yorker has seen the   
   video."   
      
   The grand jury decision comes nine days after a grand jury   
   declined to Wilson, a Fersuson, Mo. police officer. That   
   decision set off waves of protests across the country.   
      
   Soon after the announcement Wednesday, social media exploded   
   with outrage and calls for demonstrations in the streets.   
      
   Several hundred protesters began gathering in Times Square.   
   Among the signs were "Justice for Garner," "Black Lives Matter"   
   and "This Stops Today." The crowd chanted in unison, "No   
   justice, no peace, no racist police." Others shouted, "No   
   indictment is denial," and "We want a proper trial."   
      
   Some demonstrators were holding their hands in the "don't shoot"   
   position that was common in the Ferguson protests.   
      
   The civil rights advocacy group Ferguson Action Team issued a   
   statement encouraging protest.   
      
   "We must all take to the streets and stand in solidarity with   
   New Yorkers who will gather in Eric's memory," the group said in   
   a statement. "Eric's case illustrates the way police operate   
   with impunity in black communities as they cast an ever-widening   
   net of criminalization. In his case, he was harassed by officers   
   who suspected him of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes. For   
   that, he lost his life."   
      
   A group called This Stops Now had been planning protests   
   regardless of the grand jury's decision.   
      
   The group said in a news release, "Regardless of the verdict,   
   we'll be hitting the streets to demand #Justicefor Eric Garner   
   and an end to broken window policing," the practice of strong   
   enforcement against petty offenses to battle disorder that   
   fosters more serious crime. "A grand jury indictment doesn't   
   equal justice. In cases where a grand jury has indicted, the   
   majority of time the officers are found not guilty at trial."   
      
   The release said demonstrations will occur at 5:30 p.m. the day   
   after the grand jury announcement if it comes Monday through   
   Thursday or at 1 p.m. Saturday if the announcement is made   
   Friday.   
      
   Garner's case came in a year that has seen several black people   
   injured or killer in altercations with police, prompting civil   
   rights organizations to call for reviews of police procedures   
   nationwide and for police officers to wear body cameras while on   
   duty.   
      
   After last week's decision by a Missouri grand jury not to   
   indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, NAACP   
   President and CEO Cornell Brooks told CBS This Morning that   
   police procedures across the country must change.   
      
   "We're calling on people to push for a change in policing, a   
   change in the way we police our communities. We're calling for   
   legislative reform," Brooks said. "We're calling for the kind of   
   systemic, fundamental reform that can change this country and   
   prevent future deaths. We have Michael Brown, we have Eric   
   Garner, we have a litany and a list of young people who have   
   lost their lives at the hands of police. This cannot be   
   tolerated. It can't go on, and we have to step up and do   
   something about it."   
      
   Last week's Ferguson protests stopped traffic on two major New   
   York City highways and in the Lincoln Tunnel, which carries   
   commuters between New Jersey and Manhattan. This time, de Blasio   
   said Tuesday, if protests interrupt traffic, people will be   
   arrested.   
      
   "If we think public safety is compromised, the police will have   
   to very assertively address that problem," de Blasio said. "We   
   need to get traffic and we need to get emergency vehicles   
   through."   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/03/chokehold-   
   grand-jury/19804577/   
      
       
      
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