Latest Dumb Bob Beckel Statement

It is impossible to  keep current with BB's vocal absurdities, so, my apologies if he has added to the list by the time I publish this.

Beckel said that the cops who arrested Garner, taking him to the ground with a maneuver which led to him having a heart attack which caused his death, should have found another way to subdue the resisting giant. Fair enough, but it is the alternative he then suggested which causes one's eyes to roll back into one's head; taser him.

So, the bombastic Beckel imagines no harm can come from administering a high voltage shock to a person. No chance that a man's heart will stop if he receives an electric shock? No one ever died from electrocution?

Strike one, Bobby boy. 

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Critics might rightly point to Eric Garner and argue that he posed no threat to policemen; certainly, his misdemeanor merchandising of cigarettes was hardly worth a violent confrontation. Perhaps New York City policemen should have been able to find a way of arresting the obese and asthmatic 300-pound suspect without the use of a chokehold. And Garner’s pleas to allow him to breathe should have resulted in an end to pressures on his neck and throat. All that is true. But the fallout also suggests that if policemen cannot subdue a large African-American unarmed suspect — with 30 prior arrests including larceny, resisting arrest and assault —  who resists arrest, without using force that in theory could threaten his safety, then they logically will just ignore the crime.

If you are a libertarian, a street full of enterprising Garners, even if prior felons, working, profiting and breaking senseless laws is a tolerable thing; if you are a traditionalist of the broken-windows school of law enforcement, then openly defying the laws, even petty laws, undermines all law. I point this out again not to judge the police or Garner, but simply to note the likely effect of all these cases is for police to red-flag these landscapes and to pull back from certain criminal scenarios, both major and petty —  a fact that will be known to society at large.