Eric Gerner's Estate gets $5.9 million from NYC

[Xavier_Onassis]

You are still covering up. And deflecting all over yourself as well. When will this end?

[sirs]

Perhaps when you stop obsessing about Garner's body.  I mean, you're not fooling anyone in this deflective tactic to take the spotlight off your original false claim, that started this thread

[Christians4LessGvt]

Also since it's not about the money.....yeah it's about justice!

I am sure they will be writing out a check for $5.9 million to the United Negro College Fund!

Hello local Cadillac dealer how late ya'lls open?

Ha Ha....

[Plane]

You are plunging into incoherency, sirs.

I agree that arresting people for selling single cigarettes is inappropriate. Both the law and the prosecution of it were harmful.

   Can a police force or individual policemen nullify a stupid law by never enforcing it?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am sure they can and they do it every day of the year somewhere.

[Plane]

I am sure they can and they do it every day of the year somewhere.

Then lets fire all the legislatures and courts that and save this wasted money.

[sirs]

I'll 2nd that

[Xavier_Onassis]

Idiotic response, that.

[sirs]

Idiocy would be advocating that law enforcement pick & choose what laws to enforce.  Kinda like a high school math teacher deciding that their students should be taught multiplication, but decide not to teach algebra

[Xavier_Onassis]

Cops do this all the time, particularly in small communities where everyone knows everyone else. But I have lived in several such places (Westport and Randle, WA, Ashland, VA, Buckhannon, WV and Charlotte Hall, MD) and you have not.

[sirs]

So you're seriously advocating that law enforcement decide, SUBJECTIVELY, on an individual basis, which laws they're to enforce??  Lemme guess.....they'd only be the laws you claim should and shouldn't be enforced.  No wonder you have no problem with Obama's anti-constitutional end around on immigration

Here's a news flash.....RULE OF LAW is what separates us from 3rd world countries.  If you don't like a law, you support legislators to change it.  The job of law enforcement is to enforce EXISTING law.  Yes, they have latitude, as do Prosecuters, but that's not blanket for any specific law.....except of course when it comes to the left, when they've decided, that screw the other 2 branches of government, we're going to unilaterally decide what's to be enforced, and what's not.  Can you imagine the apoplectic outrage if some GOP President decides.....yea, we're not going to enforce Roe v Wade while I'm in office.  Oh, and some of those Environmental laws, yea, we're going to allocate our resources in other areas.  There'd be calls for impeachment

Now, before Dr Deflection pipes in that "This isn't about Obama, or even the president, this is about Gerner, your racist righty"......the point is what you're advocating.....that law enforcement, (and the Chief law enforcer in this country, is not the AG, it happens to be whoever is heading the Executive office in DC...that being the President) decide, ON ITS OWN, CONTRARY TO THE FUNCTION OF EACH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT, a blanket call of which laws are to be enforced

That's called a banana republic......and in its extreme version, a dictatorship

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am not discussing what should happen, I am addressing what does happen.

[Plane]

Cops do this all the time, particularly in small communities where everyone knows everyone else. But I have lived in several such places (Westport and Randle, WA, Ashland, VA, Buckhannon, WV and Charlotte Hall, MD) and you have not.

    In Mayberry this probably does not get the constable fired.

     In Gotham there may be less discretion.

    But even in Mayberry , when the state legislature , the town council and the mayor want a law enforced , they do tell the constabulary to do this for them.

    So a policeman's lot is not a happy one , large community or small where there is something negative going on the policeman has to get involved, every time.

     So a policeman sees as much tragic event and bad decision in a month as most people see in a lifetime.

[sirs]

I am not discussing what should happen, I am addressing what does happen.

Actually, you're addressing with what did happen, with what should happen.  In other words, you support a banana republic