Beyond disgusting but not surprising….

Eric Garner killed himself by being obese, claims lawyer

Pantaleo’s defense team has claimed consistently that Garner was responsible for his own death. Were he not overweight and asthmatic, they argue, he would have survived the violence to which he was subjected. While it may seem odd to suggest that a victim’s physical health should be used to exonerate someone who choked and killed him, it is consistent with the logic applied to many cases where police skate for killing unarmed civilians — many of which hinge on how the victims might have prevented themselves from dying in the first place, whether by maintaining better physical fitness, as in Garner’s case, or appearing less scary to police, as in the cases of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, and others.