Ferguson, Staten Island and National Triage

Eric Garner Memorial

National leaders and would-be leaders are weighing in on who’s to blame for the high profile deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, among others. In Brown’s case, a law enforcement officer shot the young man until he fell dead in the middle of a Ferguson street. In Garner’s case, a law enforcement officer choked the man into cardiac arrest.

In Brown’s case, there is no video record, witnesses disagree on what happened—forcing the grand jury to decide whom to believe—and fore...