Who, in his right mind, does that? This is not for lack of education. Imagine someone unable to breathe for 30 seconds and then try to guess how much the man in the chokehold must have struggled, while life slowly ebbed away from his body. This is the third world in the US where a homeless man is murdered in cold blood and the police are yet to register a case against the 24-year old who put the man in a chokehold for fifteen long minutes. But, Noam Chomsky talks about a third world in the US. I can imagine these things happening in a third world country. The journalist mentioned in a post, “The disturbed man did not seem to want to attack anyone.” What followed was that a rider, for reasons that are hard to imagine, pulled the vagrant “to the ground in a chokehold and kept him there for about 15 minutes.” Needless to say, the man in the chokehold passed out and eventually died. These lines sound tragic to say the least, especially coming from a man who is poor, mentally ill and homeless.
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