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Federal civil prosecutors have recommended to top Justice Department officials that the police officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner face charges.
April 20, 2018
The daughter of Black Lives Matter icon Eric Garner died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack.
Dec. 30, 2017
Officers were attempting to arrest Garner on charges he sold loose, untaxed cigarettes outside a Staten Island convenience store
July 16, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Eric Garner case (all times local):12:40 p.m.After five years of investigations and protests, a New York City police officer has been fired for the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.Police commissioner James O’Neill announced Monday that he has fired Officer Daniel Pantaleo based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge.Pantaleo is the officer who was recorded on video wrestling Eric Garner to the ground in 2014, with his arm wrapped tightly around Garner’s neck.Garner’s dying words of “I can’t breathe” became a flash point in a national debate over race and police use of force.Pantaleo’s lawyer has said the officer used a reasonable amount of force and didn’t mean to hurt Garner.A state grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo.
Aug. 19, 2019
Doctors have listed the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner as brain dead with no chance of recovery — five days after the mother of two suffered a massive heart attack.
Dec. 28, 2017
Almost a year after Eric Garner’s controversial death, New York City settled a case brought by Garner’s relatives, agreeing Monday to pay $5.9 million.
July 13, 2015
An administrative judge on Friday recommended firing the New York City police officer accused of using a chokehold in the 2014 death of an unarmed black man whose dying pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against alleged police brutality.
Aug. 2, 2019
Thousands of people marched peacefully through Staten Island on Saturday, chanting “No justice, no peace” and “I can’t breathe” as they protested the death of Eric Garner, who died after a New York police officer subdued him with a chokehold.
Aug. 23, 2014
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H.
Dec. 3, 2014
At a rally on Saturday marking the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s death, his mother was joined on stage by other mothers whose sons were killed in high-profile confrontations with police or security officers.
July 18, 2015