You don’t deflect. Would he be alive if the cops hadn’t murdered him?
He was alive, right? And then. He was dead. Because of a bad cop and a chokehold. What if there wasn’t a bad cop who decided to strangle another man, wouldn’t that have been great?
Problem is you are asking a question that is from a authoritarian stand point. Not all of us want cops going around and just killing us because we don’t just stand there and submit to a illegal dentition. Maybe you libs want to live in Soviet Russia but us real Americans don’t want that because we are not socialism or something.
“Decided to fight”? He pulled his hands away when they attempted to detain him. You sure are taking a fair bit of liberty choose some very colorful descriptors here…
There’s no evidence? No, none at all… save for the medical examiner ruling that Garner’s death was a homicide caused by compression of neck, chest and prone positioning, along with contributing factors of asthma, heart disease and obesity. But if you exclude that piece of evidence, then sure, there’s no evidence…
Of course it is, a knife is by definition a deadly weapon so if you threaten someone with one and they have a gun, cop or not you’re probably going to be shot and “justifiably” so.
If the detention is illegal they’d certainly have no justifiable cause to use force, much less deadly force to accomplish same.
Even if you’re right and they’re wrong you’re just stupid to fight the cops because at a minimum you’re going to take a beating, get tased or shot, and if you survive a pile of felony charges.
Yet another fabrication, they did not say he died due to the neck compression, he died of a heart attack induced by the struggle which resulted from him resisting police with force and refusing to submit.
Did the choke play a part? Sure as it was a part of the total struggle. If anything that day interfered with his ability to breathe it was the bulk of his own body and the pile of cops on top of him trying to get him cuffed.
There was no crushed larnyx or airway on autopsy, only some bruising on one side of his neck.