"I Can't Breathe!"

Should the cops have “lightened up” when Eric Garner said this? People in such situations ALWAYS say this (One time when I was a paramedic, I helped cops subdue a violent man in a hospital ER. HE claimed he couldn’t breathe, too, but he was lying, But if you can’t breathe, how can you TALK?). They had no way of knowing he WASN’T lying. Did they INTENTIONALLY kill the man for selling cigarettes illegally? Should selling illegal cigarettes rate a death sentence? WAS it a “choke hold?” I don’t know. I wasn’t there. I’ve heard the evidence in this case, and in the Ferguson case. In Ferguson, the cop was clearly in the right. In New York, not so much. But I’m not going to jump to any conclusions—yet. Yes, he was wrong to sell cigarettes for a price lower than the TAX on them, but neither should politicians lay on such a tax. It’s just too much. Maybe morally, he shouldn’t have been arrested, at all. (Just common sense)