Not exact matches
The district attorney who didn't secure an indictment in the Eric Garner case doesn't want any special prosecutor investigating future deaths of
unarmed civilians caused by police.
They will
do everything, including application of unjustified, disproportionate force against
unarmed civilians, to scotch any attempt early, as proven by yesterday's events.
When Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on July 8 giving Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the authority to investigate police killings of
unarmed civilians, he
did something he rarely
does: he empowered a rival.
One report considers
civilians who
did not bring or use firearms to be
unarmed innocents, the other report considers
civilians who confiscated weapons from their armed attackers and
did not use them in reprisal to have been «using firearms».