A majority of New York State thinks the police officer should have been charged in the Eric Garner case. Most Americans support ACA’s employer mandate. And Americans are still mostly gloomy about the economy, but pessimism about government dysfunction has narrowed slightly. This is HuffPollster for Friday, December 19, 2014. NEW YORKERS SAY GARNER GRAND JURY WAS WRONG - Siena College: "By an almost two-to-one [50 to 30 percent] margin, New Yorkers believe that the Staten Island grand jury was wrong to not have brought charges against the police officer in the death of Eric Garner, with significant partisan, geographic and racial differences.