The shooting death of Michael Brown may have divided the country, but the crushing and choking death of Eric Garner seems to have inspired unusual agreement.
Pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum have expressed consternation and outrage at the failure of a New York grand jury to indict the police officer who used a chokehold on Garner for illegally selling cigarettes.
Everyone from blog writers for the conservative National Review and libertarian Reason magazines, to Jon Stewart and New York Times editorialists, find the Garner case troubling or horrifying.
As, of course, it is. Unlike the Brown case, where it isn’t clear what happened, Garner’s encounter with police was filmed. And it involved excessive force, period.
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