So why no outrage over Eric Garner?

[cwydro]

Yeah, I'm one of the hated "wait for the facts" people here re Mike Brown's homicide.

BUT:

Eric Garner's murder was documented via videotape. Pure murder, and the guy did nothing except maybe sell some "loosies" The cops KILLED him in broad daylight and on video....for NO REASON.

Hey, why is DU not up in arms about this? Have you SEEN that video? Do any of you know who he is?

Oh wait, no violence and no shit to stir??? Boring right?

No fun there when people wait for the process. Much more fun to have looting and Molotov cocktails and race baiting.

Sheesh.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Jesus

[LanternWaste]

2. Your Freudian slip is showing...

Your Freudian slip is showing...

[malaise]

3. It was declared a homicide relatively quickly

That's why

Michael Brown didn't do anything either.

[cwydro]

8. They are both homicides. Sheesh.

Look up the definition. Yes both are homicides...good lord.

Point missed.

No action has been taken against those cops who murdered him. Except the paid vacation dealio that always happens.

Ok, y'all go back to your happiness over the violence that is occurring in Ferguson.

It will help no one. It will only hurt the community there.

But go back to your fun. I gotta be at work early and will have to wait till tomorrow to enjoy my flames.

Night to all you pot stirrers.

[NightWatcher]

4. I know nothing about that case. Go cover it for us and report back.

Livestream the protests and the police overreaction, with journalists being arrested and hassled. Show me the videos of cops shooting rubber bullets down a city street.

Regardless of what happened with the shooting in Ferguson, the overreach of the police has become a 2nd storyline.

[cwydro]

11. I completely agree about the over-reach of the police.

No argument there.

And the media is further stirring the pot.

[NightWatcher]

12. They are lining up at opposite sides of the street and marching towards each other

It's a big game of chicken.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Where were you?

[TorchTheWitch]

6. Because the media decides what we're to be interested in

Haven't seen anything here about Gaza or the Ukraine or much of anything else until this shooting occurred and the media decided to forget everything else and focus on this case exclusively. That's DU for you... just follow along with whatever the media is reporting, and never mind what had everyone's attention last week. I used to come here as the go-to place for general news. Haven't done that in years now. At least DU hasn't yet succumbed to slathering the news with celebrity rubbish to dig through though.

[cwydro]

9. Thank you for that answer.

Sad to say, you are so right.

Hey, it's the newest shiny object!

[countryjake]

7. You obviously have never known someone who was murdered by a cop.

Or the injustice that invariably follows such a murder.

Sheesh is right.

[cwydro]

10. Eric Garner was murdered by a cop.

A gang of cops actually.

[pinboy3niner]

13. We might not "know who he is?" Did you somehow miss all the Eric Garner threads on DU?

[cwydro]

17. Um your quote?

Huh?

I know that this is the latest thing and there are riots and press and woohoo! even the National Guard now!

But Eric Garner is still dead. And his death is on tape.

I guess I just don't get the difference here.

Though sadly, I do.

Night now.

[pinboy3niner]

22. Your question: "Do any of you know who he is?"

It's arrogant and dismissive, and inexplicable if you're the least aware of all the DU coverage of the issue.

I don't know why you want to argue with those who are merely pointing out to you that the Eric Garner homicide-by-cop has been the subject of much attention--and yes, outrage--here. Your combative posture only alienates.

[NuclearDem]

14. There was. Sorry you missed it.

[cwydro]

16. Oh ok.

Then this will die out just as fast.

Point taken.

Sheesh again.

[Cal Carpenter]

15. Aside from more than 14,000 results from a search for Eric Garner on DU

https://www.google.com/search?q=eric+garner&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&gws_rd=ssl

Yeah, no outrage at all

[ecstatic]

18. Emotions are not scientific. You never know when or where feelings will boil over

and explode. Also, Mike was a very young guy... 17 or 18? People tend to get a lot more angry when kids are gunned down.

Edited to add: Also, again, as others have pointed out, the arrest was pretty quick in Garner's case. Darren is still free.

[johnp3907]

19. Sheesh.

[etherealtruth]

20. Search DU (here's a link)

https://www.google.com/search?q=Eric+Garner&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&gws_rd=ssl#q=Eric+Garner+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com&start=20

There are pages and pages of posts related to Eric Garner

[Savannahmann]

21. Are you by any chance insane?

I only ask because many here, myself included, post things about police abuse all the time.

One of the websites I visit at least once a week is this. http://www.policemisconduct.net/

Where I see things every single time I go there. Things like this video blasting the process known as Stop and Frisk.

Here's the long explanation about the history of the process, and the regular abuse towards blacks.

http://www.policemisconduct.net/refresher-on-stop-frisk/

But none of us know anything about that. Because we're too busy being led around by the nose for all intents and purposes.

More than 400 people are killed a year by police. That is more than one a day. But we're ignorant of that apparently.

Here is a list of people killed by police for the moth of January. I've posted this link more than twice before in the last couple months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States,_January_2014

But none of us know anything about that. The KKK is raising money for Darren Wilson. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/08/13/kkk-raising-money-for-police-officer-who-shot-african-american-teen/

The community thinks this is wrong. I've seen the wait for the facts game played out. One of my favorites from St. Louis. A beating of a handcuffed black teen was caught on tape, the officer was charged, and the Judge dismissed all charges because she refused to watch the tape. The tape was to protect the police you see, not the public from the police. http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/07/04/judge-finds-cop-not-guilty-of-assault-after-refusing-to-watch-video-of-assault/

Let's wait until the facts come out shall we? Then we can watch them swept under the rug. The only way to get justice is to keep the pressure on those with the authority to make things happen.