Walmart commercial featuring line 'I can't breathe' being pulled from air in wake of Eric Garner

[Liberal_in_LA]

Walmart commercial featuring line 'I can't breathe' being pulled from air in wake of Eric Garner grand jury decision
The commercial began airing earlier this year, but some people started taking offense to it following Wednesday's grand jury announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted in the chokehold death of Garner.

A playful Walmart commercial featuring the phrase "I can't breathe" from a black father is being pulled in wake of this week's grand jury decision not to indict a NYPD cop in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

In the ad, a father can be seen giving his daughter a cellphone as a present. The girl reacts by screaming and embracing her father.
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo has Eric Garner in chokehold on Staten Island in July. New York Daily News NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo has Eric Garner in chokehold on Staten Island in July.

"I can't breathe," her father jokes.


The commercial began airing earlier this year, but some people started taking offense to it following Wednesday's grand jury announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/walmart-commercial-featuring-line-breathe-pulled-article-1.2035035

[yeoman6987]

1. It was a cute commercial

I wonder if anyone would have connected it to New York. Those two actors will lose money now. I hope they make another commercial with the two of them without obvious subject matter.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. An unfortunate coincidence

It reminds me of that famous unfortunate coincidence in the 1970s over the TV mini-series "Roots", based on the Alex Haley novel. When the central character Kunta Kinte as a young black man is a slave on the auction block and they fit an iron collar around his neck with a chain and he's about to be auctioned off, they immediately cut to a Wisk commercial that was very popular at the time, the "Ring Around The Collar" ad.