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Mayor Takes Pains To Be Evenhanded After Garner Deal

By MARK TOOR
Posted 7/20/15

Mayor de Blasio’s remarks on the Eric Garner settlement appeared carefully calculated to avoid rekindling the war with police unions that followed his comments on a grand jury decision not to indict one of the officers involved.

“I want to use a phrase that we did not hear as much in all the discourse,” Mr. de Blasio said July 14 at a memorial service on Staten Island, where Mr. Garner died of a heart attack after a police officer wrestled him to the ground when he resisted arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. “But we should say it because it’s evident tonight: All lives matter.”

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