I have long tried to stay my hand from the cries of police brutality, of officers overstepping their bounds and wielding their authority as a weapon. I have long tried to stay away from using that argument, from feeding the often times ill-found accusatory hysteria we see so frequently from uninformed people with a brooding hatred for police officers of any kind that are jumping at the chance to attack the authorities through whatever means possible.
But today, it was announced that Officer David Pantaleo, who killed a man named Eric Garner by way of an unauthorized chokehold, would not answer for his unarguably negligent and excessive actions.
