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What Anonymous Cops Are Saying Online About the Eric Garner Grand Jury
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoPolice have been using choke holds without repercussions for many years. And being incredibly arrogant about it. Here's an astonishing story from Portland Oregon, albeit 29 years old[1]: On the day the dead man, Lloyd D. Stevenson, a father of five and a Marine Corps veteran, was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, two Portland police officers were suspended for selling T-shirts with the message: ''Don't Choke 'Em. Smoke 'Em.'' In police slang, ''smoke'' means shoot to death. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/us/blacks-protest-choke-hold-death-in-oregon.html http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/us/blacks-protest-choke-ho...