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If evidence like that in the Garner case couldn't elicit an indictment, what was the point?
Though as the Garner case shows, recorded videos do not always clarify the complications of law enforcement.
It's not just because there was no indictment in the Garner case — it's because of the number of victims that have been killed prior to that.
In the Garner case, the public stakes are high: last year saw a significant uptick in police killings nationwide, and widespread protests of police violence against African-Americans.
The Garner case is so stark that politicians like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand rushed to express support for a federal civil-rights investigation.
McMorris Rodgers, chair of the House Republican conference, said in an MSNBC interview earlier on Thursday that the House should "absolutely" hold hearings into the Garner case.
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Case in point: If you replace the officers in the Brown and Garner cases with non-officers, it is hard to fathom a situation in which the grand jury would not vote to move the case to the next stage in the criminal process.
While the impetus behind these highly charged reactions and racial arguments warrant real debate and focus, an equally glaring issue in the Brown and Garner cases is the way in which the district attorneys presented the cases to their respective grand juries.
In an interview with WCNY's "The Capitol Pressroom," Cuomo cited the grand jury's decision in Garner's case as a driving factor in his decision, calling the case "troubling and disturbing, to say the least".
Garner's case is one horrifying outcome in the era of broken-windows policing.
The mayor added that Garner's case will go through a thorough internal investigation at the NYPD.
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