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How did resisting work out for Garner?

Apples and oranges. The husband is trying to harm her. The officer is trying to subdue her. The officer will stop when she submits.

 

Correct. And physically resisted when he tried to pull her from the desk.

His arm was NOT around her neck. He had his arm around her head, which is a restraint taught in every Law Enforcement Academy in the country.

Agreed. He went from restraint to full on body slam. Way too much way too soon.

Yes. Had she stood up like a polite, well raised young lady and complied none of this would have happened.

I have attached a frame by frame study of the other video from a different angle which better shows what actually happened.

http://louderwithcrowder.com/spring...olice-brutality-story-changes-with-new-video/

 

Except the arm only went around Garners neck after he actively resisted arrest.

The girl was not being choked. The officers arm was around her head, not her neck. A head lock is an accepted means of restraint taught in every Law Enforcement Academy in the country.

 

LOL - Umm - who started the whole thing? Right, the girl who disobeyed the rules. Then she disobeyed the teacher. Then she disobeyed the principal. Then she disobeyed the cop. Yep - it's all the cop's fault.

And let's be real. "thrown across the room" is quite different than what I saw in the video where he slid her about 4' to be out of the area of the desks.

 

Do you know what maneuver the sheriff is talking about?

 

"The agency's training unit determined from the videos that Fields did not follow proper training and procedure, the sheriff said.

"When you make an arrest of someone who does not have a weapon, you never let go of the subject. When he threw her across the room, he let go of her. That's what violates our policy," Lott said."

from http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-decide-deputy-keeps-job-classroom-arrest-083335261.html

So what violated their policy was him letting go of her.

 

It has been going on for over 30 years, incrementally. Our liberty has been slowly eroded since the 1990s.

It got started under Bill Clinton. On July 14, 1994, President Clinton's Deputy Attorney General and later 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that “The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes … and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General.”

This “inherent authority” was used to search the home of CIA spy Aldrich Ames without a warrant. "It is important to understand", Gorelick continued, "that the rules and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities".

Then Bush made it worse with the so-called "Patriot Act" that further eroded our liberty. It introduced a new set of legislative changes which significantly increased the surveillance and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies in the US and significantly decreased the law abiding citizens right to privacy.

That was followed up by Obama's NDAA of 2013 that allows the indefinite detention of American citizens without being charged with a crime or having the right to legal counsel. NDAA also authorized the president to indefinitely detain or otherwise dispose of anyone, American citizen or not, that “substantially supported” our enemies or their “associated forces.” No definition of the quoted terms has been forthcoming from our government. The vast amount of information compiled on all American citizens via the NSA listening in on all cell phone conversations is a direct result of NDAA and a direct violation of the 4th amendment.

The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) oversees a “disposition matrix,” where “disposition” refers to disposing of human beings without charge or trial, using all the best resources the government can muster to efficiently kill or capture our enemies, real or imagined.

Add to that the militarization of local police, and the imposition of warrantless stops of vehicles at Border Patrol Checkpoints nowhere near the border, and DUI checkpoints, both without any probable cause for the stop, and the TSA, which has NEVER caught a terrorist, conducting searches that amount to sexual molestation in many cases, and it is obvious we are losing our liberty one small piece at a time.

It reminds me of the old "frog in the pan of water" illustration. As long as it is done slowly and we are given time to get used to each incremental reduction of our rights we don't complain.