NYC Grand Jury Returns No Indictment in Police Choke Hold Case
 

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/no-i...t_nbr=vekepobk

BMT

The crime:

I guess NYC cops are now "revenuers". :rolleyes:

Pat

I have run quite a few grand juries. Almost all of the people I have had on grand juries have been very good, and have been very conscientious in their work. All of them have been very engaged in the process. To say they take the work seriously is an understatement.

The standard to obtain a grand jury indictment is just "probable cause". Numerically, think of it as 50.1%. If the evidence doesn't make it to probable cause to a grand jury, there is no way the case would pass muster in front of a trial jury, with a burden of proof of "beyond a reasonable doubt".

The Founding Fathers were quite wise by giving us a right to juries, both with grand juries and trial juries. What people need to understand (i.e. former law professor Barack Hussein Obama and United States Attorney General Eric Holder) is that juries are our standard of judgment. If a jury of our peer says it, that's the law of the case.

The use of lethal force to effect an arrest for a petty crime is absurd and apparently this officer has a history.

In the video, I did not see lethal force applied, but I did see apparent non-compliance from the subject.

TR

It's banned by the NYPD. IMHO modern law enforcement suffers from a complete lack of common sense. Is it really necessary to arrest a man for selling individual cigarettes?

...I never realized that selling loosey's was a crime of such magnitude.

There was no damage to his trachea per the autopsy.

http://youtu.be/Nql1xRtWKOU Gracie breakdown