NY protests over choke death ruling
Despite the video and a medical examiner’s ruling that the chokehold contributed to the death, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to bring any charges against the officer, prompting protests across the country and sending thousands onto New York’s streets, where they continued to march last night.
While legal experts note it’s impossible to know how the grand jurors reached their conclusion, they say the Garner case, like Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, once again raised concerns about the influence local prosecutors have over the process of charging the police officers they work with on a daily basis.
