"I can't breathe"
by digby
The killing of Eric Garner wasn't the first time we've been able to hear someone begging for his life, unable to breathe, as police killed them on camera:
This is what he looked like at the hospital. He lived for five more days.
It didn't help that it was filmed. It didn't even help that they were indicted:
A jury has acquitted two former Fullerton, California, police officers on trial in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill and homeless man.
The verdict was read in a Santa Ana courtroom Monday afternoon. Eight women and four men began deliberating the case on Thursday.
"I'm just horrified. They got away with murdering my son," Cathy Thomas, the victim's mother, told reporters after the verdict was read.
The victim's father, Ron Thomas, said that everyone now needs to be afraid.
"This is carte blanche to police officers to do whatever they want," he told reporters.
Why would any cop think otherwise?
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