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"In this case, you had videotape, and the videotape is pretty darn clear," Cohen says. "The video showed that the officer engaged in a long-prohibited conduct, a chokehold, and read more it doesn't seem to make any difference to the jury. And that's because the prosecutor decided that there should be no indictment for any criminal behavior."

"The result here, as in Ferguson, may have as much to click here do with the grand jurors as with the preferences of the prosecutors. Grand jurors in Staten Island may not be all that different in their world view from grand jurors in suburban St. Louis."

"Look at the facts of the case, and the videotape, and the fact that the officer has read more his arm around the man's neck in a chokehold, and the man is saying 'I can't breathe.' If you can't indict that cop for anything, then my site basically you can't indict a cop my site for killing a black man, period."