Jon Stewart Tries To Hold It Together About Eric Garner. He Really Tries.

That word he ends with — is there really any other word for when a grand jury decides that what a coroner calls “homicide” shouldn’t even go to *trial*?

In case you can’t watch the video (but do watch it if you can), here is the breakdown:

Jon Stewart announces the grand jury’s decision not to send Eric Garner’s killer to trial and observes how hot on the heels it is on the injustice in Ferguson.


He goes on to explain to those of us who just don’t understand.

But surely the cops must have some reasonable benefit of the doubt due in this case, right?

No? Even the medical examiner ruled Eric Garner’s death a homicide, and still no trial? Well, then.

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