STATEN ISLAND — Stating that all that is seen, done, and heard is simply “an ephemeral creation of the subconscious,” a Staten Island jury yesterday unanimously refused to indict a police officer in the choking death of Eric Garner. “A system of morality based on the facade of meaning in our existence is a thoroughly vulgar conception,” read the foreman when explaining the decision’s rationale. The jury, composed of 12 existentialist French philosophers, took about seven minutes in total to deliberate after the conclusion of the initial proceedings. “Obviously we are disappointed with the outcome today,” said District Attorney Daniel Donovan, Jr. “But, at the end of the day, I think [the prosecution] left a lot of nihilistic questions unanswered.” At press time, the jurors admitted that they had been reading The Stranger throughout the trial and had not seen the video of the chokehold.