Posts Tagged ‘chokehold’
White cop who killed Eric Garner with chokehold demands job back
Just when the survivors of Eric Garner thought it was safe … The White New York police officer who killed Garner with an unrelenting and outlawed chokehold in 2014 is now demanding to get his job back. As a matter of fact, former cop Daniel Pantaleo is suing the New York Police Department to get…
Read MoreNYPD fires officer who killed Eric Garner with chokehold
Daniel Pantaleo, the plainclothes member of the New York Police Department who killed Eric Garner with an outlawed chokehold in 2014, has been terminated from the department after five years, NBC News reports. NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has upheld the decision handed down by an administrative judge that Pantaleo be terminated for choking the life…
Read MoreNYPD judge recommends Eric Garner’s killer be fired for chokehold death
A New York Police Department judge recommended the officer responsible for putting Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014, Daniel Pantaleo, should be terminated from the NYPD. Buzzfeed also reports that just a few hours after that judge’s decision was handed down, Pantaleo was suspended from the force. This comes five long years after…
Read MoreNYPD union says Eric Garner did not die from chokehold
The police union representing the New York Police Department is trying to tell the world that you should believe their words, not your lying eyes. Despite the infamous video that went viral worldwide showing Eric Garner dying from a chokehold applied by officer Daniel Pantaleo, the union has the intestinal fortitude to actually say that…
Read MoreLawyers for cop who killed Eric Garner claim he was never put in a chokehold
By now, many people have heard the story of Eric Garner, 43, who was a married father of six children and two grandchildren. In the infamous video viewed by millions across the world, Garner was placed in a chokehold by New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo and shouted “I can’t breathe” multiple times before lying motionless…
Read MoreEric Garner: Battle to get cop fired in danger because of delay
It was July 17, 2014, when Eric Garner was choked to death on a street corner in New York. His death was caught on cell phone video as he was choked to death by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo while gasping the words, “I can’t breathe.” Now a critical case that could mean Pantaleo gets kicked…
Read MoreWill Eric Garner get justice? DC takes over investigation from New York
The chokehold death of Eric Garner is back in the news as the Department of Justice in D.C. is taking over the case from investigators in New York. Garner was choked to death by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo while selling loose cigarettes on a street corner in July 2014. His death sparked the #ICantBreathe hashtag and…
Read MoreUpdate: Settlement reached with widow of Eric Garner after rejection of 1st offer
UPDATE: As of late today (7/13/15) The City of New York has settled with the family of Eric Garner for $5.9 million. City comptroller Scott Stringer said “Mr. Garner’s death is a touchstone in our city’s history and in the history of the entire nation. Financial compensation is certainly not everything, and it can’t bring Mr.…
Read MoreAll eyes on New York as grand jury decision in Eric Garner case nears
The summer of 2014 will go down in history as the summer of the murdered black man. It started with the death of Eric Garner and occurrences of police killing young black men continued. The reality of this continued cycle of police violence towards black men of color is ingrained within the fabric of…
Read MoreBreaking: Medical examiner rules Eric Garner’s death a homocide
The New York City medical examiner’s office released a statement late Friday afternoon concerning the death of Eric Garner. According to Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office, Garner was killed by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo when he applied a chokehold — a form of restraint that is prohibited by the police department.…
Read MoreEric Garner update: NYPD cover-up begins with leaked memo
The death of Eric Garner, a father of six and grandfather of two, has shocked the nation. Cellphone footage caught a NYPD police officer put Garner in a chokehold, which is against departmental policy. Garner is heard saying, “I can’t breathe” eleven times before he dies in the chokehold. The officers involved have been disciplined…
Read MoreSpike Lee video on Eric Garner: Radio Raheem and The Gentle Giant
Another NYPD chokehold caught on video
Days before Eric Garner was killed when a NYPD cop used a prohibited chokehold on him during a minor arrest, there was another incident of the same nature. A new video has surfaced of another cop using a chokehold. Ronald Johns, age 22, of New York, walked through an emergency gate at an East Harlem…
Read MoreEric Garner, killed by police, laid to rest
It was a sad day in Brooklyn, New York, as another black man killed by the police was laid to rest. Eric Garner, a father of six and grandfather of two, was laid to rest in a service at Bethel Baptist Church in Boerum Hill. The church was packed as family members, politicians and the community…
Read MoreNYPD places father of 6 in chokehold for selling cigarettes, he dies
By now, many people have heard the story of Eric Garner. Garner, 43, was a married father of six children and two grandchildren, was killed last week by New York City police officers. The community is outraged by his death and it was caught on video. In the video Garner is confronted by police who…
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