He didn't die because he was selling cigarettes, untaxed or otherwise. I'm not saying that Eric Garner was killed for selling cigarettes. Now I don't want anybody to misunderstand me, there's a lot of nuance here and a lot of ancillary points that I'm focusing on. It is so out of proportion and I'm telling you, everywhere you look where some of this stuff is happening, inexplicable stuff, who's running the show? It turns out wherever you turn, liberals are running the show.Īfter a commercial break, Limbaugh further clarified his claim lest anyone think he was accusing New York City cops of deliberately killing Garner for peddling smokes (audio). He did that! Now de Blasio's running around, (saying) what happened?! Gee, this is outrageous, look at all this excessive force! Well, yeah, that's what you tax collectors, somebody had to mandate, I'm not suggesting somebody told the cops to go out and kill these people but this is just, none of this, it is so out of proportion. And the mayor, de Blasio, has just ordered the police to crack down on illegal cigarettes a few weeks before the Garner incident. New York state, back to the taxes here, New York state imposes a tax of $4.35 a pack, that's the highest of any state, and that's on top of the local New York City tax of $1.60, which is also the highest of any city. So he was doing something so that he could collect money off the books so as not to damage whatever benefit plan, series of benefit plans that he was, that he was on. Now, Garner left his job as a, if you can believe it, he was a horticulturist for New York City, he left that job because of his asthma so, I guarantee you, the guy's on disability of some kind, that has to be a factor. You have to be told, you have to be under some kind of really concentrated, concerted order in order to focus so much energy and so much attention on some poor guy selling individual cigarettes. But this poor guy, trying to eke out a living in Manhattan, well, east Staten Island, selling loosies, single cigarettes - did you see the number of cops that descended on this guy?! About five or six cops on a guy selling loosies?! On a guy selling cigarettes?! What kind of orders must these cops be under? I guarantee you, I don't care what, human nature, you see somebody smoking a cigarette, come on, you keep driving, you keep walking, it isn't a big deal. We have a poor guy who died because of a tax collection issue.Īnd by the way, over here is Al Sharpton who somehow still owes the feds over $4 million in back taxes and nobody's making a mad dash to collect from him. So Eric Garner, with everything else that's involved here, whatever else happened here, we have a guy who died over a tax collection issue but nobody will say that out loud. I want people arrested, I want examples made, I want to get these black-market cigarettes off the street, I want to get 'em out of town, and anybody selling them I want deal with.Īnd so the cops hit the streets with their marching orders and on the way to catching the guy selling loosies (individual cigarettes), they have to probably pass by some people, you know, who knows doing what with whatever it is, crack or marijuana or whatever, 'cause they're hellbent on getting these black market guys out - because that is our precious tax revenue. So what do they then do? They mandate - they mandate - they call the police commissioner and they tell him, you get your members of the force locked and loaded on this. So the city of New York, all out of shape that its $13-per-pack taxes are not being collected due to the black market for cigarettes that's sprung up due to all of these taxes. Perhaps it has something to do with what the city is losing as a result - tax revenue (audio). Why did NYC police send so many officers to arrest a single person selling cigarettes, albeit illegally, Limbaugh asks. The grand jury's decision, coming fast on the heels of a similar conclusion by a grand jury convened after the shooting death of an 18-year-old black male by a white police officer last August in Ferguson, Mo., further exacerbated racial tensions in New York City and across the nation. Radio host extraordinaire Rush Limbaugh has turned his attention toward one of the least noticed but arguably most relevant circumstances involving the death of Eric Garner after his arrest in July by New York City police.Ī Staten Island grand jury earlier this week decided against indicting the police officer alleged to have used a chokehold on Garner when he was arrested, a procedure banned by the city's police but reportedly allowed by state law.
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