The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is known for being able to find the humor in just about anything, but that wasn’t the case yesterday. Stewart began his program yesterday with news of the Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold and killed him.
Stewart was lost for words before he went on an passionate rant on why this case was so mind blowing to him and many Americans.
“I think what’s so depressing is that none of the ambiguity that existed in the Ferguson case exists in the Staten Island case and yet the outcome is exactly the same… no crime, no trial, all harm, no foul. In Ferguson, at least you had conflicting witness testimony, you had conflicting forensics, you had the specter of at least police self-defense, but here there is none of that. The coroner called it homicide and the guy’s not acting threatening and we know that not through witness testimony or unreliable bystanders but because we’re f***king watching it,” Stewart said.
Watch the full segment here.
