staten island Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/staten-island/ Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:35:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png staten island Archives – https://ezkool.com/tag/staten-island/ 32 32 12773863 A Modern Day Lynching in Staten Island https://ezkool.com/2014/07/a-modern-day-lynching-in-staten-island/ https://ezkool.com/2014/07/a-modern-day-lynching-in-staten-island/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:21:59 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=53319 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 […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/07/a-modern-day-lynching-in-staten-island/feed/ 0 53319 The Staten Island Man Killed By Police Was A “Gentle Giant” https://ezkool.com/2014/07/the-staten-island-man-killed-by-police-called-a-gentle-giant/ https://ezkool.com/2014/07/the-staten-island-man-killed-by-police-called-a-gentle-giant/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:53:17 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=53289 (AP) — Eric Garner was a familiar figure on the streets near Staten Island’s ferry docks: to his friends, a congenial giant with a generous gesture or a calming word; to police, a persistent face of the small-time crime of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. Garner’s last run-in with police spiraled into a confrontation in which […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/07/the-staten-island-man-killed-by-police-called-a-gentle-giant/feed/ 0 53289 Man Screams “I Can’t Breathe!” Then Dies as Police Puts Him in Chokehold – Shocking Video https://ezkool.com/2014/07/man-screams-i-cant-breathe-then-dies-as-police-puts-him-in-chokehold-shocking-video/ https://ezkool.com/2014/07/man-screams-i-cant-breathe-then-dies-as-police-puts-him-in-chokehold-shocking-video/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:45:30 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=53165 A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows. “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, repeatedly screamed after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of […]

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