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The Death of Eric Garner: How Did Almost Everyone Get it So Wrong? 2nd Edition

The Death of Eric Garner: How Did Almost Everyone Get it So Wrong? 2nd Edition

Crothers, James

Paperback

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1095673963
ISBN13: 9781095673966
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 28 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is a critical time in the Eric Garner case, with the NYPD starting a hearing on May 13, 2019, to consider whether a police officer violated departmental regulations by choking Garner and with the U.S. Department of Justice facing a statute-of-limitations deadline of July 17, 2019, to decide whether to indict that officer on federal charges. A nearly universal misinterpretation of the evidence for more than four years has had that officer convicted in the press of a chokehold killing. Garner actually died from compressive asphyxia occurring during, and caused by, his restraint in the prone (belly-down) position on the sidewalk. Medical examiners commonly miss this cause of death because it typically leaves no evidence detectable in autopsy. READ THIS BOOK to understand compressive asphyxia and how it is causing many other in-custody deaths that are misinterpreted as caused by something before the prone restraint, such as a chokehold or a stun gun (Taser). The Garner case could lead to better training of all law-enforcement officers to avoid causing this kind of asphyxiation, but only if we can get beyond the chokehold misinterpretation and understand what is actually revealed by the widely viewed - and almost universally misunderstood - video of Garner's takedown and restraint.

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