DE BLASIO BLASTS DECISION NOT TO INDICT COP IN CHOKE HOLD DEATH

After a Staten Island grand jury refuses to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, NY Mayor Billl de Blasio calls Garner a ‘good man’ despite his record of 31 arrests and blamed racism for Garner’s death and the grand jury’s decision

In an emotional rambling speech after a Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday refused to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, New York’s Sandinista-loving Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted the decision and said, "It's a very emotional day for our city. It's a very painful day for so many New Yorkers. We're grieving — again — over the loss of Eric Garner, who was a father, a husband, a son, a good man — a man who should be with us, and isn't."

The ultra-liberal de Blasio, who is hated by the rank-and-file cops, repeatedly sympathized with Garner’s family and made his statement personal by mentioning his own son Dante. De Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray is black, as is Dante. The mayor said, "I couldn’t help but immediately think what it would mean to me to lose Dante. Life would never be the same for me after. Chirlane and I have had to talk to Dante for years about the dangers that he may face. No family should have to go through what the Garner family went through.”

De Blasio blamed racism for Garner’s death and the grand jury’s decision not to indict Pantaleo. He said, "We're not just dealing with a problem in 2014, we're not dealing with years of racism leading up to it, or decades of racism we are dealing with centuries of racism that have brought us to this day. That is how profound the crisis is."

De Blasio said President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are having the Justice Department conduct an investigation to see if the feds can indict Pantaleo and the other officers who participated in Garner’s arrest.

Last July, NYPD cops were trying to arrest Eric Garner, 43, for the illegal sales of cigarettes. Garner, a huge black man, resisted the attempt to arrest him. A video shows Officer Daniel Pantaleo applying what appeared to be a choke hold as he jumped in to assist other cops in trying to subdue the 350-pound the giant. Garner, an asthmatic, was in poor health and died shortly after the arrest.

As in the Michael Brown case where blacks demanded that Darren Wilson be arrested and tried for murder, black New Yorkers likewise demanded that the cops who arrested Garner be charged with murder.

Garner,43, has a record of 31 arrests, beginning when he was 16. At the time of the fatal arrest, Garner was free on $2,000 bail for selling untaxed cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false personation.

Let’s see now. According to the mayor, Garner died because the arresting white cops were racists. Also, de Blasio says a man with a record of 31 arrests is a good man. And he’s been warning his black son Dante to be fearful of white cops. Those ‘smart’ New Yorkers proved how really ignorant they are when they elected that asshole their mayor.