This idea that if someone gives a cop an attitude they deserve to die or be beaten up is sickening. The only time a Cop can kill someone and not be a murderer is if it was reasonable for him to assume that his life was in danger and the only way that danger could be averted would be by using deadly force.
There is no way on earth that this was the case in the Eric Garner case, and there was no reason at all for the Cop to come up behind someone who had their hands in the air and choke them the way that cop did. I don’t care if he was calling the cops all sorts of names (it just happens that he wasn’t) or whatever, Cops do not have any more of a right to beat people up for disrespecting them then any other civilian does. At most Eric Garner is complicit in his own death to the extent that someone who insults someone who then proceeds to kill them is complicit in their own death, and I don’t think he was even disrespecting the officers.