svelte: but consider why he was being arrested/harassed by the cops in the first place. Reason was supposedly him selling loose cigarettes (thus evading about $7 of tax). No evidence of him possessing black-market cigarettes was ever found.
It seemed awfully like “walking while black” to me, and maybe the cops should have left him alone. I hope that Pantaleo doesn’t get a single moment of peace, and they he’s hounded into at least resigning, if not leaving the city for life or jumping under a speeding subway train.
