A few hours after the decision came down to not charge the police officer who put the unarmed Garner in the chokehold that killed him, the streaming service’s official Twitter account sent out an ill-timed message promoting its new show Peaky Blinders .
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On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury ruled not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, a 43-year-old unarmed black man, in July after putting the asthmatic man in a chokehold. The decision came a week after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, decided not to charge Darren Wilson, the officer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
As protesters marched around the country on Wednesday, Netfilx sent out the below tweet. It was a promotional message in support of Peaky Blinders, the streaming service's British drama about a gangster family in post-World War I England.
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