Eric Garner's autopsy results were not enough for the Staten Island grand jury to indict the accused NYPD cop, Daniel Pantaleo.
On Wednesday, the case involving a 43-year-old man who died after NYPD cops pinned him down for allegedly distributing unlicensed cigarettes, has finally ended but it was mostly favourable to the accused cop who did a chokehold on Garner while other cops were restraining him, reports New York Times.
As per earlier reports, Eric Garner's autopsy results showed that he died of homicide resulting from the chokehold and the compression of his chest.
Since 1993, the chokehold maneuver has been banned by the Police Department. Despite this and the raw footage on how Garner was treated in the fatal encounter back in July, a Staten Island grand jury still didn't find Pantaleo guilty.
The jurors reportedly deliberated on the case for less than a day before revealing their decision that there was not adequate evidence to forward the charges pressed against the embattled officer.
The grand jury was mainly half white. The other half was equally divided between Hispanics and Blacks, as per court documents.
The ruling on Eric Garner's autopsy and case comes only a week after a different jury maintained that another white officer named Darren Wilson was not guilty of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Pantaleo insisted that he felt "very bad about the death of Mr. Garner."
In his testimony in front of the jury, Pantaleo claimed that the maneuver he did was taught at the Police Academy.
However, Garner's wife, Esaw, did not give Pantaleo a chance and did not even accept the latter's apology for her husband's death.
"Hell, no," Ms. Garner said. "The time for remorse for the death of my husband was when he was yelling to breathe."
"He's still feeding his kids," she added, "and my husband is six feet under and I'm looking for a way to feed my kids now."
Meanwhile, protestors flocked the streets from Tompkinsville to Times Square after the grand jury announced their decision that Eric Garner's autopsy results and all the other evidences presented in court were not enough.
Many of the protestors used Garner's words in the viral raw footage of the July incident. Some shouted, "This stops today" while others chanted, "I can't breathe."
U.S. President Barack Obama has also expressed his disappointment over the case and his move to help seek justice for Garner.
"When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem," Obama said, "and it's my job as president to help solve it."
According to BreitBart, Eric Garner's autopsy revealed that the 43-year-old was killed by homicide that's due t "compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police."
However, Eric Garner's autopsy results also stated that he died die to acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity and heart disease.
"If an obese person with co-existing medical problems can't get good oxygenation to begin with, then a chokehold could put him over the edge," said an insider close to the Medical Examiner's coroners.
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