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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
What I meant to post was:
Is there any evidence that Garner was doing anything wrong before the cops tried to arrest and subsequently murder him.
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I think the initial stop was a Terry stop based on suspicion of selling cigarettes, he physically resisted that stop, which gave the officers the authority to arrest him.
But if the officers' action was unlawful, it really doesn't matter if Garner was "doing anything wrong" first. Same with Zimmerman/Martin, if Zimmerman's actions were unlawful, it really doesn't matter if Martin really had been "doing anything wrong." Even if Garner was a murdering child molester, an unreasonable seizure is still an unreasonable seizure. So it's disingenuous to try to tie those two things together. It leads to the "he was executed for selling cigarettes!" tagline that you were really going for.