No charges for NYPD officers accused in Eric Garner chokehold death case

From the article in the New York Times:

[quote]The grand jury, impanelled by District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr. in September, has weighed evidence {snip}
{emphasis added}[/quote]

Any competent prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

But they have to want an indictment.

In all cases where the person who faces an indictment is a police officer, we need to have a special prosecutor appointed, an attorney who does not have a day-to-day, working, collegiate, cordial relationship with the police department.

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