COULD LAWMAKERS SHARE RESPONSIBILITY IN GARNERS DEATH?

ERIC GARNER WAS IN THE HABIT OF SELLING LOOSE
CIGARETTES WHICH COME FROM UNTAXED PACKS
"BROUGHT " IN FROM OUT OF STATE....NOW, WE ALL
KNOW THAT THESE "BOOTLEG" SMOKES COST THE
STATE A LOT OF TAX REVENUE....THE STATE LEGISLATURE
HAS MADE THE SALE OF THESE UNTAXED CIGARETTES A
CRIME....MOST OF GARNER'S ARRESTS WERE FOR SELLING
LOOSIES.....

SINCE GARNER WOULD SELL THEM IN PROXIMITY TO THE
LOCAL BUSINESSES, THEY WERE LOSING MONEY TOO.....
SO, THEY WOULD CALL THE LOCAL PRECINCT AND
COMPLAIN. THE CAPTAIN CALLS THE DEPUTY COMMISH,
THEN HE WOULD TALK TO THE COMMISH, THEN HE WOULD
SPEAK TO THE MAYOR, AND THE MAYOR CALLS THE GOV,
THE GOV TELLS THE MAYOR TO ENFORCE STATE LAW....
SO, THE MAYOR TELLS THE COMMISH, AND THE COMMISH
TELLS THE DEPUTY COMMISH, THEN HE CALLS THE CAPTAIN,
THE CAPTAIN THE TELLS THE SERGEANT AND THE SERGEANT
TELLS THE OFFICERS TO PUT THE PRESSURE ON UNTIL THE
PERPS STOP THE "ACTIVITY" OR MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.....

ON THAT FATEFUL DAY, GARNER DECIDED THAT HE'D HAD ENOUGH, WHAT WAS THE BIG DEAL ANYWAY?, I'M JUST
SELLING LOOSIES....SO HE GAVE THE COPS LIP, HE RESISTED
THE ATTEMPTS TO BE CUFFED, SO THE OFFICERS DECIDED
TO TAKE DOWN AND ERIC GARNER DIED IN THE HOSPITAL
AN HOUR LATER FROM CARDIAC ARREST BECAUSE HE WAS
IN LOUSY SHAPE HEALTH WISE....SO NO, I DON'T BLAME
THOSE OFFICERS FOR FOLLOWING THE ORDERS THAT WERE
BASED ON STATE LAW.....AND THE PATHETIC MAYOR THREW
HIS POLICE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE BUS BY INTIMATING
THAT THEY ARE INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST, THEREBY FEEDING
THE ANTI-COP FRENZY....ONE COULD THEORIZE THAT GARNER
DIED OVER CIGARETTE TAX MONEY MAYOR DOOFUS.....



                                                        RONALD J LAMB