And the Christian Science Monitor notes:
Many on the political right and left united to condemn the grand jury decision, a rare event in an age of acute polarization.
The cover of the conservative New York Post says: “IT WAS NOT A CRIME,” written in big, bold letters, accompanied by still frames of Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold.
Fox News syndicated columnist and contributor Charles Krauthammer called the grand jury’s decision “totally incomprehensible.”
“I think anybody who looks at the video would think this was the wrong judgment,” Krauthammer said.
“It defies reason. It makes no sense,” wrote Sean Davis at the Federalist. “Just going on the plain language of the law, the police officer who killed Garner certainly appears to be guilty of second-degree manslaughter at the very least … All we have to do is watch the video and believe our own eyes.”
Leon Wolf of the conservative blog Redstate wrote, “This decision is really and truly baffling to me, and infuriating besides.”
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson endorsed this statement from the conservative Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “[A] government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice.”
Twitter also lit up with reaction, with many on the right uniting to condemn the decision.
For example, Noah Rothman – Associate Editor at Hotair – tweeted:
This is one of those moments where left and right could unite. Few seem comfortable with this outcome.
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