State Assemblyman Charles Barron has his own plan for dealing with the fallout from a grand jury’s refusal to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner: pass a law prohibiting grand juries from examining cases in which a suspect dies after being arrested or detained.
“When you do the grand jury, the officers don’t get arrested, they stay out for the duration of the grand jury,” the longtime black activist said at an Aug. 17 press conference outside City Hall. “It’s a private setting, where the prosecutor can present forensic evidence—we don’t know how they’re interpreting it—
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