On July 17, Eric Garner was accosted by police on the streets of Staten Island, suspected of selling cigarettes on which no tax had been paid. Garner complained, the police tried to arrest him, they got him in a chokehold, and he died as a result. His death has become an issue because he was black.
Do people really need charges of racism before they see how vicious the state can be — how vicious it routinely is — when it enforces its laws?
