Former President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States and one of the latest powerful voices to publicly speak and share his opinion about the Eric Garner case in the face of ongoing protests after the Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the Officer Pantaleo who put Garner into a fatal chokehold that led to his death in July. Clinton said the unarmed Garner may have been doing something illegal but he “didn’t deserve to die.”
“He was doing something he should not have been doing. That was illegal. He was selling untaxed cigarettes on the street in small volumes, trying to make a little extra money. But he didn’t deserve to die because of that,” Clinton told the news channel Fusion in an interview. Clinton also noted that Americans have racial “preconceptions wired into us — and we have got to get beyond them.”
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