Just to be clear, Garner was not killed due to taxation, he was killed because he was black

Rand Paul just wrecked his ’16 campaign: Watch his awful Eric Garner answer

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Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball” shortly after a Staten Island grand jury declined to prosecute the cop who choked Eric Garner to death, on suspicion that Garner was selling loose cigarettes, Paul shamed himself, badly:

Well you know I think it’s hard not to watch that video of him saying ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’ and not be horrified by it. But I think there’s something bigger than the individual circumstances. Obviously, the individual circumstances are important. But I think it is also important to know that some politician put a tax of $5.85 on a pack of cigarettes so that driven cigarettes underground by making them so expensive. But then some politician also had to direct the police to say, ‘hey we want you arresting people for selling a loose cigarette.’ And for someone to die over breaking that law, there really is no excuse for it. But I do blame the politicians. We put our police in a difficult situation with bad laws.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/12/04/rand_paul%E2%80%99s_terrible_night_he_wrecks_his_2016_campaign_with_an_awful_eric_garner_answer/