It’s More Obvious Than Ever Pantaleo Should Have Been Charged With Eric Garner’s Death

The Indictment

Now that a grand jury in the same state indicted Liang for Gurley’s death, the injustice against Eric Garner and his family becomes all the more clear.

While both deaths are a tragedy for all those involved, a cop getting spooked in a stairwell and firing his gun is easier to fathom than an officer forcibly choking the life out of a man pleading him to stop, especially using a maneuver his force banned more than two decades ago.

Both officers also have some level of culpability — at least enough to warrant a trial. Liang paid closer attention to texting his union reps than helping the man he shot, and Palanteo could have released his chokehold on the victim.

Additionally, it’s incredibly rare for grand juries to fail to return an indictment, as Nate Silver’s website, FiveThirtyEight, found. In 2010, the most recent year with available data, grand juries declined to indict only 11 cases out of 162,000 — or 0.0067%.

The decision in Garner’s case was hard to swallow when it happened. But now, considering the indictment against Liang, Garner and family clearly deserved a chance at justice.

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