Smother
Verb.
To stamp out, to choke, to stifle, to control, to suffocate, to quell
Antonyms include:
Allow, encourage, free, release

watch carefully
how the thesaurus is better than a riot.
They say officers in riot gear arrived in buses and armored vehicles to quell the demonstration
And I think
officers in riot gear arrived in buses and armored vehicles to suffocate the demonstration

Demonstration
Noun.
Brown & black peoples of a city trying to breathe

watch carefully
how the words chosen pretend to be what they are not.
They say the president remains an unpredictable character, with no intention of stifling his opinions
And I hear
the president remains an unpredictable character, with no intention of controlling his opinions

President
Proper Noun.
Usually a man of integrity, now a man wearing a white sheet

watch carefully
how everything turns to dust.
how everything they say is what it is supposed to be, but buried under relief.
They say he never sought to choke Garner to death, or even injure him. He was doing his job, taking a resisting man to the ground

And you know they mean
He never sought to smother, control, suffocate Garner to death, or even injure him. He was doing his job, taking a resisting man to the ground

Resisting
Conj. Verb.
black, brown, not white

Job
Noun.
Government approved, god given right.

He never sought to kill eric garner to death. Or even injure him. He was using his god-given right, taking a black man to the ground.

Smother
Verb.
A black state of being in a blue state.