“If you thought cops killed Eric Garner, you got it wrong. It’s the lack of respect for cops that did. That’s pretty much the sentiment behind a bizarre press conference held by police unions on Tuesday, in which representatives talked angrily about how nobody in New York loves them anymore. In their remarks, the reps picked up a fight with the city’s medical examiner, slamming the official autopsy report of Garner’s death as wrong and ‘political,’ and accusing everyone from the mayor, to the media, to civil rights advocates of distorting the truth. Never mind that even NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said, after Garner’s death, that the arrest involved what would ‘appear to have been a chokehold.'”
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