DaasYochid – If you happened to read All the comments before posting, it would be helpful.
“He wasn’t trying to enforce the mitzvos of b’nei Noach,”
No one said he was!
“and whether Garner happened to have been a criminal is irrelevant.”
It is very relevant. We were talking about what the Torah holds.
“The sole issue here is whether the police officer was responsible for his death, and that’s it.”
Who said?
“If he was, then he did no mitzvah, and he should have been indicted.”
I say it was a Mitzvah. And he wasn’t indicted, because it wasn’t an indictable offense.