"I can't breathe." Eric Garner, a black man who'd been selling loose cigarettes and went into a panic when faced with arrest, said those three words 11 times while white New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo kept him on the ground in a chokehold. Garner died from having his air cut off, in full view of a camera that caught almost the entire encounter from start to finish. Yesterday, a grand jury deliberated for less than a day before deciding not to indict Pantaleo in Garner's killing.

Protesters in New York City and a lot of other places across the country—already stung by a grand jury's decision more than a week ago not to indict the officer who killed Ferguson's MIchael Brown—rushed to the streets last night saying they couldn't breathe, either. They'll be back on the streets tonight, too. Here in Portland, a solidarity march has been called for 6 pm on the steps of the main jail at SW 3rd and Madison, where several local protests have launched over the past several days.

But the Garner case isn't officially over. US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a federal civil rights investigation of the killing. Back in 2011, the Justice Department declined to pursue criminal charges in the Portland police shooting of Aaron Campbell in 2010. (The feds, instead, opened a broader investigation of the Portland Police Bureau's use of force, ultimately finding our cops engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force against people in, or perceived to be in, a mental health crisis.)

The Cleveland cop who last month killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American boy who'd been playing outside with a BB gun and was shot with no warning, had left a smaller Ohio police force in 2012 after he was found unfit for police work.

In Portland yesterday, city commissioners waded into one of the more vexing issues in local police accountability—asking senior police officials to defend and explain a union-bargained rule that lets officers have 48 hours to prepare their thoughts before giving compelled statements in deadly force incidents. A group of consultants hired by the city, as we reported last month, has now twice called for the city to do away with the controversial provision.

The longtime manager of the city's sewers bureau, put on leave by Commissioner Nick Fish after a harsh audit this fall into ballooning costs at a showpiece office building, has given notice he plans to sue the city—alleging his punishment was driven by politics. The bureau director, Dean Marriott, is the last bureau manager left with civil service protections.

The Measure 92 recount? The narrowly losing "yes" side—in favor of labeling most food products containing genetically modified ingredients—has gained two votes so far.

Multnomah County's latest budget forecast is one of the rosiest it's seen in some time. It's ongoing revenues, over the next five years, are expected to rise by $7.7 million—along with a one-time $35.7 million bump next year.

Three more women have publicly accused Bill Cosby of rape. Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred says America's former favorite father should waive the statute of limitations on the cases and hash them out in court. The number of Cosby accusers has grown to something like two dozen.

Louisiana's Mary Landrieu seems likely to lose her Senate seat to a Republican. She's already been largely abandoned by her fellow Democrats, after pushing away the president and supporting the Keystone XL pipeline. But when she goes, she'll be the last Democratic senator in the Deep South.

Vladimir Putin of Russia tried to rally his nation last night in the face of a recession and serious tension with western powers over Ukraine. He also tried to talk up peace and calm after years of terror threats in Central Asia. But right before his speech, insurgents clashed with police in Chechnya, leveling an office building.

Al-Qaida's Yemeni affiliate has threatened to kill an American journalist captured in 2013, Luke Somers, if they don't get their ransom.

North Korea hates that new Seth Rogen farce about a Kim Jong Un assassination plot so much that it maybe just tried to hack Sony Pictures.

In a small Georgia town, freedom of religion doesn't mean what you think it does. The city council in Kennesaw voted 4-1 to keep a mosque from opening a temporary home in a mall. Outside the chambers, protesters held signs that said things like "Ban Islam."

SOME GOOD, STOLID PEOPLE DOWN THERE. THE PERSON FILMING THIS, WHO WROTE THIS CAPTION—"THE SCUMBAG LAWYER FOR THE TERRORIST ORG SAYS HE WILL SUE... GOOD LUCK WITH THAT."—IS EXHALING VERY NOISILY. ALSO THIS IS THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE THING I'VE EVER SEEN.