(NewsNation) — The daughter of Eric Garner, who died at the hands of an NYPD officer nearly nine years ago, believes if her family had seen justice, the police beating of Tyre Nichols may have never happened.

“In this case of Tyre Nichols, justice was swift. If we (the Garner family) would have had that in 2014, would there have been a Tyre Nichols today? I don’t think so,” said Emerald Snipes-Garner.

Unlike in her father’s case, the officers in the Nichols video were all immediately fired, arrested and charged. Going forward, Snipes-Garner wants the focus to be on the Nichols family.

“His family needs support,” she said. “(The Nichols family) need mental health support. They need emotional support. They need all of these things to get through this trial. I would like to see mental health services provided for them at no cost.”

Garner, 43, was killed in Staten Island, New York, in July of 2014 after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in an unauthorized chokehold. Garner’s struggle to breathe was captured on bystander video and his cries of “I can’t breathe,” a phrase he repeated 11 times, became a national rallying cry against police brutality.

The medical examiner ruled Garner’s cause of death a homicide.

A Staten Island grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo, and then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered the federal case against him to be dropped in July of 2019.

Pantaleo was fired from the NYPD in August of 2019, more than five years after Garner’s death.

Watch the full interview with Emerald Snipes-Garner in the video above.

North Dakota Republicans have introduced a bill to ban all students who publicly identify as cats from public school. Doug Mastriano, who ran for governor of Pennsylvania and lost by huge margins, wants a bill to be introduced in Pennsylvania, banning all drag performances from public property.

Books are being banned. Abortion is being banned. Everything is being banned. There was a time when republicans — normal ones — would have been aghast at what some of the freakier members of their party were doing.

But sadly, few normal Republicans exist anymore. So there are fewer decent Republicans who can see the horror of what is going on. And what is going on is the killing of morality. Morals, values, and simple common decency — are being slowly and torturously executed by the freakish group we have now who calls themselves Republicans.

In reality, they bear little resemblance to the old republican party. It’s like insane fembots have replaced sane humans. And that must be our message going forward. We have to explain and educate the American people. Stories like these help us do just that by showing the GOP’s lack of a moral compass.

The normalizing of insanity is here. All morals and values have gone out the window. We are the party of sanity. We still have the core values that most Americans believe in. But this phantom group we run against — who are they?

What do they stand for other than the execution of morality? I can’t see anything. Nobody can see their values, their conscientious decision-making, their humility. That’s because it isn’t there. There isn’t anything to see. So let that be our message in the future.

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Searching for sympathetic coverage from the New York Times? Here’s a hack: Earn an advanced degree, then commit a violent crime in the service of your radical politics. 

We have closely followed the cases of Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis, the New York City attorneys who tossed a Molotov cocktail into a police cruiser in May of 2020. Or, as the New York Times put it, their legal careers were sidetracked when “a Molotov cocktail ignited the center console of an empty police car during a Black Lives Matter protest.” Rotten luck! 

Rahman went to Fordham. Mattis went to Princeton and NYU. They are precisely the sort of well-resourced and well-connected people that the New York Times is always telling us the criminal justice system favors—unjustifiably. 

The Trump administration reached a plea deal with the defendants that discarded six of the seven counts against them, but argued that the incident qualified for a so-called terrorism enhancement that would have made them eligible for steeper prison sentences. Then the Biden Justice Department rolled out the red carpet, allowing Rahman and Mattis to cop to a lesser charge and pressing the court for a light sentence. 

Enter the New York Times, on the eve of Mattis’s sentencing, for a window into how the mainstream media’s blinkered view of the world skews news coverage. The paper omitted the details of Team Biden’s lenient approach but swooped in to inform readers that Rahman and Mattis are “both first-time offenders” who “had been high achievers.” Rahman was “the primary caretaker of her aging mother,” Mattis of three foster children. 

Funny, we never got those sorts of loving details about the hundreds of January 6 defendants, like Thomas Webster, the former New York Police Department officer and retired Marine convicted of assault, or Dustin Thompson, the Ohio exterminator who stole a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack from the Capitol. Whether they were first-time offenders, high achievers, caretakers for aging parents, or guardians of foster children, we’ll never know. 

Painting a vivid and sympathetic portrait of one class of domestic terrorists and demonizing the others, well, that is precisely the point. 

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While right-wingers love to accuse the media of having a liberal bias, the reality is that much of the media has moved considerably further to the right in just the last five years than any of them will care to admit. This is partly because network execs have seen Fox News as a profitable business model and have modeled many of the same efforts at CNN.

There have also been a number of right-wing networks that tried to pan Fox as being ‘too woke’ and hired their own anchors to say things even more insane than we’re used to at Fox News – though each has had varying degrees of success at peeling away Fox viewers. OAN was already dropped by its biggest carriers and ratings suffered as a result. Now, Newsmax is being dropped by DirecTV – one of the largest platforms for cable news channels.

While right wing pundits are decrying DirecTV’s decision as yet another example of “conservative discrimination,” the real reason for DirecTV’s choice was obvious. Newsmax demanded higher carriage fees than DirecTV was willing to negotiate – something that would have forced the satellite provider to raise its subscription costs for all members.

The problem is that despite what Newsmax’s CEO wants to say about the channel being discriminated against, their views are just not popular for all DirecTV subscribers to pay them more than the $2 per month each that they already pay to Rupert Murdoch – even if they hate Fox News. Their numbers for viewership don’t give them the leverage – and this is a bit of a problem for the former guy, since one of the most adamantly pro-Trump networks on TV is having problems of its own.

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(NewsNation) — Shelby County, Tennessee, District Attorney Steve Mulroy joined NewsNation’s “CUOMO” to explain why he charged the five officers involved in the Tyre Nichols case.

“All five are responsible for his death, which is why we charged all five with the same offenses,” Mulroy said.

Authorities Friday released body camera footage of Tyre Nichols’ arrest, which showed five Memphis police officers beating the 29-year-old Black FedEx driver as he called out for his mother during an arrest earlier this month.

The officers, all of whom are Black, were charged Thursday with murder and other crimes in the killing of Nichols, a motorist who died three days after the Jan. 7 altercation with the officers that occurred during a traffic stop.

Mulroy said the mood in Memphis after the video was released was “hurt and anguished” but not the kind of “explosive outrage that some feared.”

There are limits to what Mulroy can say in terms of characterizing the video, but he believes the charges are obvious.

“Everyone can draw their own conclusions, but I think it’ll be obvious why we charged what we did.”

(NewsNation) — One of the charges five Memphis police officers are facing for the altercation during the arrest of Tyre Nichols is aggravated kidnapping.

How will prosecutors attempt to prove that in court?

Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, a criminal defense attorney, said they may focus in on the fact that officers pulled Nichols from his car the night of Jan. 7, when he was punched, kicked and beaten with a baton. He died in a hospital days later.

“Trying to actually pull him out of the vehicle is a very unusual step and that very well may be the reason that the district attorney’s office … has alleged kidnapping,” DeBorde said Friday on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”

Police said they were conducting a traffic stop, from which Nichols fled after he was pulled from his car. Police were trying to restrain him on the ground before he was able to get up and run away.

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti called the kidnapping charges “aggressive,” because they would have to prove that the officers weren’t conducting a traffic stop for lawful reasons.

“If the allegations are going to be that the stop from the very beginning was improper, I think that’s taking on quite a bit, and (it) gives the defense quite a bit to work with,” Mariotti said.

You can watch DeBorde’s and Mariotti’s interviews above.

Israelis have just experienced the worst Shabbat we’ve seen in many years. A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed seven people and injured a dozen others as they left their synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood after Friday night prayers.

Horrible memories materialized in an instant as the magical silence that reigns over a Shabbat night in Jerusalem was filled with sirens, pain and suffering. 

The timing of the attack was particularly painful, as it happened on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 78 years to the day after the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by the allied forces in 1945, Jews are still being murdered in cold blood, even in our own homeland.

Israeli authorities say they believe the terrorist, a 21-year-old resident of East Jerusalem who was killed by security forces after the attack, acted as a lone wolf. Lone wolf attacks are almost impossible to prevent, as even the best intelligence often can’t foresee them.

In Israel and around the world we are hurt by these losses, and confused by what they mean. The attack in Neve Yaakov followed a Thursday raid in the city of Jenin in the West Bank that killed nine — the deadliest West Bank raid in years. We wonder: Are we yet again entering a cycle of terror, prolonged by retaliations on both sides? Will this ever end? 

While we recover from our collective pain, there’s no room for rushing to conclusions, and less for speculating about what Israel’s government should or should not do in response. That will come later. 

But as we digest what happened, wherever we are in the world, and whatever our views on this conflict are, let’s not forget some fundamental truths.

First, nothing — absolutely nothing — justifies this horrendous attack on innocent civilians. Not the occupation, and not a right-wing government. Everyone, without exception, should condemn this.

Second, we should not direct frustration or anger towards the Palestinian people as a whole. We must remember that many of them are likely very frightened right now, especially when they hear some of the loud and extremist voices already seeking revenge. 

Third, we must be honest with ourselves: we must cohabit this land. Israel, as a robust democracy, must continue to protect its minorities, including Palestinian citizens of Israel. Some of the first responders in this attack — as has been the case in the past attacks — were likely Palestinian paramedics and doctors, showing professionalism, compassion and devotion. That’s a testament to our strength as a diverse country, something we should always protect.

Fourth, we must never lose our hope for peace. We must, and will, find a peaceful and durable solution with all of our neighbors. We must always remember that peace is in our best interest — not a compromise to be resisted.

Fifth, and finally, 78 years ago today, we had to rely on others to rescue us. Today the Jewish people have a country to be proud of, despite its imperfections. And it is never a bad moment to remember, and to tell everyone out loud that we are here to stay. And as is evident by now, while every attack of this sort hurts us deeply, it also makes us stronger.

We shall overcome this one, too.

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