# Why wasn't the police officer who killed Eric Garner indicted?

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**Created:** [December 4, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-police-officer-who-killed-eric-garner-indicted/706271 "2014-12-04T00:06:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-the-police-officer-who-killed-eric-garner-indicted/706271/156 "2014-12-04T20:44:12Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
>
> Don’t know quite how to break this to you, perhaps you should sit down…
> 
> Every\* fucking\* day. Day in, day out, twenty-four, seven, three sixty five…

Then clearly white people need to be treated much worse than they are now.

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