Former Mayor Rudy Guiliani has a unique theory about why Eric Garner died. It was not because a police officer choked him until he died. No, it was because the teachers’ union blocked charters, vouchers, and merit pay. I am not sure whether he wanted Mr. Garner to go to a charter school or the police officer. Maybe both. If there is an edge, he went over it.

His remarks reminded me of the incident during his term in office when police brutalized a man named Abner Louima, and one of them allegedly said, “It’s Guiliani-time.”