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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWas the NYPD's attack on Garner retaliatory?
New York, NY The Free Thought Project has been given exclusive information as to why Eric Garner may have been killed by the NYPD. This new information paints an entirely different picture as to why police were harassing Garner that fateful day back in July.
The information comes from an interview that took place last Thursday with Benjamin Carr. Benjamin Carr is Eric Garners stepfather, who was in the media recently peacefully resolving a situation with an angry protester.
The brief clip, obtained exclusively by the Free Thought Project, is part of a much larger collection of video which is going to be part of a documentary on police misconduct, which is why the videographer who gave it to us, has placed a watermark over it.
In the interview, Carr tells us that police didnt show up that day because Garner broke up a fight or sold loosey cigarettes; they were there because police had a history of harassing Garner.
Carr explains that police had actually stolen money from Garner, who subsequently planned to file a complaint against the NYPD for this theft. Police were there that day, Carr says, not to shake Garner down for selling smokes, but to retaliate against him for trying to expose their theft.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/bombshell-eric-garners-death-retaliatory-move-nypd/#5e3u4hf4irM4Ftai.99
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/bombshell-eric-garners-death-retaliatory-move-nypd/
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Was the NYPD's attack on Garner retaliatory? (Original Post)
Vattel
Apr 2015
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. k/r
2naSalit
(86,827 posts)2. No surprise there.
I had heard this someplace else right after his murder. I hope they are exposed ad infinitem. They deserve nothing less than to be exposed and punished.
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)3. I wish I was surprised.
I'm not, and that's the worst part.
Damn.