Last week’s decision by a grand jury not to indict the officer who shot and killed unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., once again has triggered a national debate about criminal prosecutions of police officers. Here in New York City that discussion has particular resonance in light of yesterday’s decision by a grand jury not to indict the NYPD officer whose use of a chokehold resulted in the death of unarmed Eric Garner on Staten Island this past summer and the Nov. 20 shooting death by an NYPD officer of an unarmed Akia Gurley in a Brooklyn public-housing complex.
Time and again, local grand juries decline or refuse to indict police officers who have killed or severely injured unarmed black men. Against that background, the Brown, Garner, and Gurley deaths have prompted repeated calls for the federal government to prosecute the responsible officers.
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