By Chris Hoenig
Eric Garner was allegedly selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. He didn’t assault a police officer, but he still died at the hands of an NYPD officer in a videotaped chokehold.
His case may be a (not-so) rare, but extreme example of the unjust punishments Blacks face at the whim of America’s legal system, but the protests that have followed the grand-jury decisions not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, Garner’s killer, or Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson have triggered a Twitter movement to shine a light on the double standards Blacks face at the hands of police and courts across America.
