“There was a decision that came out today by a grand jury not to indict police officers who had interacted with an individual named Eric Garner in New York City — all of which was caught on video tape and speaks to the larger issues that we’ve been talking about now for the last week, the last month, the last year and, sadly, for decades,” Obama said.
“And that is the concern on the part of too many minority communities that law enforcement is not working with them and dealing with them in a fair way.”
“Oh, my God, are you serious?” Esaw Garner, Eric Garner’s widow, told The (New York) Daily News. “I’m very disappointed. You can see in the video that he (the cop) was dead wrong!”
Family lawyer Jonathan Moore said he “actually astonished based on the evidence of the videotape, and the medical examiner, that this grand jury at this time wouldn’t indict for anything.”
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