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napkinz

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13. But he's an Eagle Scout!

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 01:27 PM

Dec 2014

Chokehold Cop Is 'Eagle Scout' Blameless In Eric Garner's Death, NYPD Union President Says

By Christopher Mathias
12/04/2014

The president of the NYPD’s largest police union said Thursday that the officer who put Eric Garner into a fatal chokehold is an Eagle Scout who shouldn’t be blamed for the death.

Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, did fault one person for the death: Eric Garner.

“We believe Mr. Garner made a choice that day to resist arrest,” Lynch told reporters during a press conference Thursday, according to NBC New York.

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Pantaleo, Lynch said, “is literally, literally an Eagle Scout, and I think that story isn’t being told. That a New York City police officer went out and did a difficult job, a job where there’s no script, and sometimes with that, a tragedy comes.”

read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/04/pat-lynch-eric-garner_n_6272738.html

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WTF? First he puts Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, and then he's waving at the camera? [View all] napkinz Dec 2014 OP

more WTF ... "P.B.A leader: Pantaleo a �model� police officer" napkinz Dec 2014 #1

He is the kind of man, that would choke someone to death and then wave at the cameras. Rex Dec 2014 #5

who the hell waves at someone filming you after you've committed a homicide? napkinz Dec 2014 #7

Well, if he's the ideal Bettie Dec 2014 #10

"Then people in that city should be very, very frightened" napkinz Dec 2014 #11

Yep. Bettie Dec 2014 #12

"He is the model of what we want a police officer to be" BillZBubb Dec 2014 #2

so can we say they are thugs with immunity? napkinz Dec 2014 #3

Video: Lawrence O'Donnell on the "model police officer" who used the chokehold & waved at the camera napkinz Dec 2014 #4

He's not even fucking phased RedCappedBandit Dec 2014 #6

Take someone's life, destroy a family and not give a damn about it MrScorpio Dec 2014 #8

But he's an Eagle Scout! napkinz Dec 2014 #13

I was watching The Ed Schultz Show last night and they were showing the video. My grandson who jwirr Dec 2014 #9

Watch Jon Stewart's face when "martial arts student" Sean Hannity discussed Eric Garner napkinz Dec 2014 #14

My point was that the cop was fully aware of what he was doing because he was using all the moves jwirr Dec 2014 #15

I know ... napkinz Dec 2014 #16

He certainly could. Thank you. jwirr Dec 2014 #17

kick napkinz Dec 2014 #18

Maybe surgical or chemical castration for every male on the force coupled with constant drug aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2014 #19

"too nonchalant after killing someone" napkinz Dec 2014 #20

The term "full of themselves" applied to these overbearing cops couldn't be more appropriate aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2014 #21

By the way, the Patrolman's Malevolent Association seems to have declared war on the Mayor aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2014 #22

DU member Blue Tires posted about Patrick Lynch attacking the mayor ... napkinz Dec 2014 #23

Oh that REALLY shows he didn't mean to hurt Garner LiberalElite Dec 2014 #24

and now a message from Danny ... napkinz Dec 2014 #25