No surprise. There are no federal charges in the Eric Garner case. Matt Taibbi's latest
Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, and Reverend Al Sharpton leave the Federal Court House after being informed in a private meeting that prosecutors would not seek charges against the police officer who they believe choked her son to death.
That all ended this week, when word came by way of the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, Richard Donoghue, that charges were not forthcoming. Donoghue made the announcement a day before the fifth anniversary of Garner’s death.Attorney General William P. Barr ordered the case be dropped.” This is technically true, but it would be a mistake to cast the news as a re-routing of history by the hated William Barr. The fate of this case was probably sealed when Jeff Sessions became the Attorney General, and maybe before that.a priority from the moment he assumed office. The issue bookended his reign as the nation’s top law enforcement official.it is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies.
So not just the Garner case, but really all such cases are now, by design, likely to be reviewed even less frequently by the federal government . In the time people around the case have spent waiting for a decision by the feds, the man who filmed Garner’s death, Ramsey Orta, has been arrested, jailed,served two and a halfMeanwhile Dan Donovan, the District Attorney who famously failed to make the case against police officer Daniel Pantaleo, has had time to for congress, win, be
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