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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
A Grand Jury Did Indict One Person Involved In Eric Garner's Killing — The Man Who Filmed It — On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to return an indictment for the police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death.
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Hands Up, Don't Choke: Eric Garner Was Killed By Police For No Reason — On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner was choked to death by a New York City policeman. On December 3, 2014, a grand jury chose not to indict the officer who killed him. And unlike the Michael Brown case in Ferguson …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Former RNC chairman: 'Black man's life not worth a ham sandwich' — Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Wednesday criticized grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo.
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Uri Friedman / The Atlantic Online:
Do Police Body Cameras Actually Work? — It may be the most significant reform to follow the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. — On Monday, President Obama requested $75 million in federal funds for a technology that, as he sees it, could help bridge the kinds of rifts between …
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Eric Garner and the Crime Drop — The so-far inexplicable decision of the grand jury that decided not to hand down an indictment in the case of a New York City police officer who put a deadly choke-hold on Eric Garner points to the complexities of managing police policy and strategy 20 years …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Michael Brown, and Now Eric Garner — At some point between the moment a Missouri grand jury refused to indict a police officer who had shot and killed Michael Brown on a Ferguson street and the moment a New York grand jury refused to indict a police officer who choked and killed Eric Garner …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: GOP leaders betting that conservative rage will sputter out — With conservatives working themselves up into cries of rage and betrayal over the GOP leadership's emerging scheme to avoid a government shutdown, it seems increasingly likely that House Republican leaders …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Pete King: Eric Garner Wouldn't Have Died From Chokehold If He Weren't ‘Obese’ — While many on the right condemned a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for placing a black man in a fatal chokehold, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) defended the officer Tuesday and said that if the victim …
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Department of Justice:
Statement by Attorney General Holder on Federal Investigation Into Death of Eric Garner
Statement by Attorney General Holder on Federal Investigation Into Death of Eric Garner
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Andrew McCarthy / National Review:
No Indictment in Garner Case
No Indictment in Garner Case
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Albert Burneko / The Concourse:
The American Justice System Is Not Broken
The American Justice System Is Not Broken
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Sara Fischer / CNN:
Rand Paul blames Eric Garner's death on high NYC cigarette tax
Rand Paul blames Eric Garner's death on high NYC cigarette tax
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New York Times:
A Search for Justice in the Eric Garner Case
A Search for Justice in the Eric Garner Case
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Says Eric Garner Is Responsible For His Own Death: He ‘Was So Obese’
Congressman Says Eric Garner Is Responsible For His Own Death: He ‘Was So Obese’
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Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
With Eric Garner, Obama's body camera argument just took a big hit
With Eric Garner, Obama's body camera argument just took a big hit
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH: Bill to roll back immigration order unfair — The White House on Wednesday blasted a bill offered by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) that would roll back the president's executive action on immigration, calling the bill “unfair” and “bad policy.” — Press secretary Josh Earnest said the legislation would …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
GOP unlikely to reverse ‘nuclear option’
GOP unlikely to reverse ‘nuclear option’
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
The money majority — Mitch McConnell has a plan to stay in control of the Senate.
The money majority — Mitch McConnell has a plan to stay in control of the Senate.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Republicans scramble to avoid a shutdown ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline
House Republicans scramble to avoid a shutdown ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: US infrastructure ‘embarrassing’
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Motorist hits crowd members, pulls gun at Central West End protest — A man was arrested during protests Wednesday evening in the Central West End after he drove through the crowd and later waved a gun at protesters. — The incident happened during a day of demonstrations that brought protesters …
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Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods — Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users, attorneys for consumers told jurors in a class-action antitrust suit against Apple Wednesday.
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Katie McDonough / Salon:
“It makes me really depressed”: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won't go away — Rolling Stone's piece on sexual violence may have been imperfect — but here's why its backlash was pre-ordained — Rolling Stone contributing editor Sabrina Rubin Erdely's report on a culture …
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Ben Carson Lashes Out At Wolf Blitzer: Don't ‘Focus On The Words’ When I Compare U.S. To Nazis — Possible Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson on Wednesday lashed out at CNN host Wolf Blitzer for “focusing on the words” that he used when he compared the United States to Nazi Germany.
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Ben Carson: Presidency ‘horrible and stressful’
Ben Carson: Presidency ‘horrible and stressful’
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Chrstrauss / USA Today:
Kenny Smith's open letter to Charles Barkley about Ferguson - A For The Win exclusive. — (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images) … Dear Chuck, — I hope this finds you in the way I always see you, in great spirits, with great joy and full of life.
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Joel Connelly / Strange Bedfellows:
Landrieu warns about Cantwell: Cantwell raises money for Landrieu — Beleaguered Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., underdog in her forthcoming Senate runoff election, warned Pelican State voters on Wednesday that her defeat would elevate an advocate of “windmills” to a powerful position on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide — In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military's Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya's cellphone networks and monitor text messages.
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