For my editorial piece, I chose the article It Wasn’t Just the Chokehold by the New York Times Editorial Board. This article explored the death of Eric Garner due to police brutality and a banned chokehold July 17th of this year. Although this event is not current, it has gotten quite the uproar due to the Ferguson protests all around the United States. This article sheds a bit of logic to the situation and peaceful protests around New York. Many US citizens are extremely aggravated with the homicide of Garner, but the author shows that it was not fully the cops fault that the man died. He then explains how obesity affects a persons capability to breath, and how the same situation happened to another obese man with autism, although in that case the police tried to help him to breath again. The author in no way excuses the police officer of murdering Eric Garner, but helps others to understand exactly what happened that caused his death. There wasn’t much of a bias in this article, which shocked me for an editorial. This makes some sense to me because all of the other articles I’ve read on the subject have been extremely radical, which sets this piece apart. Overall, this piece gave me more insight on the Garner homicide than I had gotten from any other article I’ve read and helped me to understand exactly what people are protesting for.
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