Eric Garner

The grand jury let us down

Liberals this morning report with perplexity that numerous conservatives have publicly deplored the grand jury decision not to indict in the case of Eric Garner, some calling for the feds to step in.

They find it impossible to explain why these same conservatives could have supported the grand jury refusal to indict in the Ferguson affair while deploring the refusal to indict in this case, except by reference to the distaste of some for the laws regarding sale of un-taxed cigarettes the police were enforcing in the Garner case.

Hence they avoid the obvious.

The difference in the conservative reaction to the two cases is due to the difference between what the evidence says actually happened in the two cases.

Conservatives deplore the grand jury decision in this case because the evidence strongly supports the claim the cops used unnecessary, illegal, and excessive force even to the point of killing a man, with not much to be said in their defense.

In Ferguson, Officer Wilson was being railroaded from the start because he was a white cop who had killed a black young man.

And later the balance of evidence strongly supported Wilson's claims that he had been attacked in his car by boy Brown, that Brown had tried to take his gun and almost succeeded, that when Brown walked away from the car and he (Wilson) ordered him to stop, attempting to arrest him, Brown turned on him and charged him, at which point he shot Brown.