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12-03-2014, 04:03 PM
Immediately following the grand jury decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Fox News’ Shepard Smith invited legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano to share his opinion on the matter. Based on the cell phone video evidence, Napolitano quickly said the officer should have been indicted.
“My thoughts are that this ought to have been an indictment and ought to have been an indictment for some form of manslaughter,” Napolitano said. “It’s not first-degree murder, it’s not second-degree murder but it’s certainly reckless manslaughter, because of the excessive use of deadly force on a person who posed no serious or material threat to the police.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox%E2%80%99s-judge-napolitano-unlike-ferguson-eric-garners-killer-should-have-been-indicted/
“My thoughts are that this ought to have been an indictment and ought to have been an indictment for some form of manslaughter,” Napolitano said. “It’s not first-degree murder, it’s not second-degree murder but it’s certainly reckless manslaughter, because of the excessive use of deadly force on a person who posed no serious or material threat to the police.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox%E2%80%99s-judge-napolitano-unlike-ferguson-eric-garners-killer-should-have-been-indicted/