The news that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be charged in the chokehold death of Eric Garner raises a slew of hot button issues about race, police brutality and more. But here’s a more mundane issue that isn’t the only issue and maybe not even the main one but is a pretty big one nonetheless: Why was Garner placed in a chokehold at all?
NYPD officer won’t be charged in the chokehold death of of Eric Garner.
One of the good things about people with borderline personalities is that even though they’re melodramatic, disruptive and inappropriate, the storms often end up passing pretty quickly. And along those lines, DC Republicans promised war on President Obama’s immigration executive order seems to be over.
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Kilgore to Dems Monday Morning Quarterbacking Obamacare: Get a life, folks. No one cares about your second-guessing.
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Meet the GOPers who think the GOP’s own Benghazi Report is a cover up.
Texas school board member says he’s sorry about offending people with his KKK “White Christmas” Facebook post.
O’Reilly: Those Rams playing with ‘hands up’ weren’t “smart enough to know” what they were protesting.
On Ferguson, these teens are smarter than everyone. Check out this piece.