Group 1
We begin with the strongest inaccurate accusations. A reminder:
0:00-0:11 ... Takedown
0:12-0:17 ... Arm removed from neck
0:16-0:30 ... Series of I-can't-breathe's
The following incorrectly connect the repeated I-can't-breathe's to a continuing chokehold.
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(1) "What is so disturbing about this case is the blatant combination of needless escalation by police and excessive use of force by Pantaleo, who placed Garner in a chokehold even as the prone suspect rasps repeatedly that he can't breathe."
(1) The Boston Globe, "Grand jury lets Eric Garner's killer off the hook" 12/4/14 (editorial)
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(2) "Video footage makes it clear that Garner wasn't threatening police in the moments before police officers put him in a fatal chokehold, and that officers continued to hold him in that position after he repeated, 'I can't breathe.'"
(2) Christian Science Monitor, "Why conservatives and liberals are united on Eric Garner case" 12/4/14
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(3) "This is a group of police officers standing around as their colleague blatantly violates policy with a dangerous chokehold and doing nothing to stop him, even as Garner, who poses absolutely no danger to them, pleads that he can't breathe."
(3) The Atlantic, "Eric Garner and the NYPD's history..." 12/4/14
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(4) "I can't breathe...I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe...I can't breathe...I can't breathe... Eight repetitions of a plea for help that drew no response from the policeman whose arm wrapped Garner's neck in a choke hold."
(4) Houston Chronicle, "Justice is good business" 1/3/15, (op-ed)
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(5) "'I ... CAN'T ... BREATHE.' Those words were, of course, the last ones that Garner, a forty-three-year-old black man, uttered while being held down on a sidewalk on Staten Island by cops, including one, Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who had him in what N.Y.P.D. commissioner William Bratton subsequently described as an unauthorized chokehold."
(5) The New Yorker, "New York's verdict: We Can't Breathe", 12/4/14
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(6) "In a scene the whole world saw on video, he was choked to death in front of a parade of police who stood around while he pleaded for a breath of air 11 times."
(6) Rolling Stone, "A Year Later, the Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Still Stings" 12/3/15
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(7) "Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold, compressing his windpipe -- a maneuver that the New York Police Department banned two decades ago. Garner complained repeatedly that he was having trouble breathing. The officers wrestled him to the sidewalk, where he died."
(7) The Washington Post, opinion piece, 12/3/14
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End of Group 1. There's more...
We begin with the strongest inaccurate accusations. A reminder:
0:00-0:11 ... Takedown
0:12-0:17 ... Arm removed from neck
0:16-0:30 ... Series of I-can't-breathe's
The following incorrectly connect the repeated I-can't-breathe's to a continuing chokehold.
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(1) "What is so disturbing about this case is the blatant combination of needless escalation by police and excessive use of force by Pantaleo, who placed Garner in a chokehold even as the prone suspect rasps repeatedly that he can't breathe."
(1) The Boston Globe, "Grand jury lets Eric Garner's killer off the hook" 12/4/14 (editorial)
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(2) "Video footage makes it clear that Garner wasn't threatening police in the moments before police officers put him in a fatal chokehold, and that officers continued to hold him in that position after he repeated, 'I can't breathe.'"
(2) Christian Science Monitor, "Why conservatives and liberals are united on Eric Garner case" 12/4/14
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(3) "This is a group of police officers standing around as their colleague blatantly violates policy with a dangerous chokehold and doing nothing to stop him, even as Garner, who poses absolutely no danger to them, pleads that he can't breathe."
(3) The Atlantic, "Eric Garner and the NYPD's history..." 12/4/14
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(4) "I can't breathe...I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe..I can't breathe...I can't breathe...I can't breathe... Eight repetitions of a plea for help that drew no response from the policeman whose arm wrapped Garner's neck in a choke hold."
(4) Houston Chronicle, "Justice is good business" 1/3/15, (op-ed)
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(5) "'I ... CAN'T ... BREATHE.' Those words were, of course, the last ones that Garner, a forty-three-year-old black man, uttered while being held down on a sidewalk on Staten Island by cops, including one, Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who had him in what N.Y.P.D. commissioner William Bratton subsequently described as an unauthorized chokehold."
(5) The New Yorker, "New York's verdict: We Can't Breathe", 12/4/14
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(6) "In a scene the whole world saw on video, he was choked to death in front of a parade of police who stood around while he pleaded for a breath of air 11 times."
(6) Rolling Stone, "A Year Later, the Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Still Stings" 12/3/15
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(7) "Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold, compressing his windpipe -- a maneuver that the New York Police Department banned two decades ago. Garner complained repeatedly that he was having trouble breathing. The officers wrestled him to the sidewalk, where he died."
(7) The Washington Post, opinion piece, 12/3/14
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End of Group 1. There's more...