Mail.comNEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge is hearing arguments by lawyers who want him to disclose what happened in secret proceedings before a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police chokehold death of an unarmed man.
Judge William Garnett on Thursday asked lawyers to describe why he should open records in the Eric Garner case. The 43-year-old black Staten Island man died last summer after he was put in a chokehold by a white police officer. A grand jury decided not to indict the officer.
New York Civil Liberties Union attorney Arthur Eisenberg told Garnett that the disclosure of normally secret grand jury proceedings is necessary. He says without it, the public cannot reconcile the video of Garner’s arrest with the grand jury decision.
Judge William Garnett on Thursday asked lawyers to describe why he should open records in the Eric Garner case…..
Hello…. duh…. because an innocent man was murdered… that’s why.
Secret proceedings should NEVER be permitted.