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Here’s What Some Cops Are Saying About the Death of Eric Garner

Emotions are running high over the case of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died last week while under the restraint of NYPD officers. Social media activist have mobilized under the #JusticeForEricGarner hashtag. There is, however, another community online expressing their feelings about the case: police, and what many have to say is chilling. NYmag.com has… Continue reading Here’s What Some Cops Are Saying About the Death of Eric Garner

A Modern Day Lynching in Staten Island

There is a reason I read The Rude Pundit. Most of the time, Rude zooms in on things the other so-called pundits either willfully or accidentally miss. Rude’s most recent piece focused on the killing of a Staten Island man named Eric Garner. Garner was killed when New York Police applied an illegal chokehold on… Continue reading A Modern Day Lynching in Staten Island