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The families of George Floyd, Eric Garner and Jacob Blake are inextricably intertwined with each other due to police brutality and their shared belief that they “are not looked at like humans.” The three families are members of an exclusive club after their lives were “changed within seconds” after the men in their lives were…

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…

3 When Eric Garner’s life was tragically choked out of him by former New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo, the slaughter gave birth to a budding filmmaker’s debut movie American Trial: The Eric Garner Story. Premiering at the annual New York Film Festival, Roee Messinger’s movie explores what might have…

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…

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…

Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s statements regarding his position on NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy sparked a flame of contention that has existed between the mayor and citizens of the city of New York, for BeBlasio’s refusal to terminate the officers responsible for the murder of Eric Garner, most notably Daniel Pantaleo. DeBlasio’s refusal to fire the officers is…

The New York Police Department officer who applied the illegal chokehold that killed Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York will not face federal charges, NBC News reports. After concluding its five-year investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice said it will not seek civil rights or criminal charges against officer Daniel Pantaleo. The officer was…

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…

A current federal wrongful death lawsuit against the Hayward, California police department, has brought to light a case that escaped national attention. Roy Lee Nelson Jr., a mentally ill Black father, died during an arrest declaring, “I can’t breathe,” after family members called 911 for medical help. Now recent video introduced into evidence has called…

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…

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…

The notorious New York Police Department surprised many when it decided to hand over big bundles of Benjamins to director Spike Lee for him to develop and run a program that will improve relations between the NYPD and the Black community it is supposed to serve. The department, still reeling from the choke-hold death of…

The season of protest and civil disturbance that usually comes with summer is getting a springtime build up of hate. Across America, outrageous reports of bigotry and racism posted to social media have become national news. Let’s look at six things Black people can’t do. Let rolling out know what else should be added to…

The firebrand daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner died in Brooklyn Saturday morning, sources told the New York Daily News. She was 27. The beloved and outspoken Erica Garner had been fighting for her life since she suffered a massive heart attack a week ago, family members told the Daily News Thursday. Relatives and friends…

Erica Garner is not brain dead. On Dec. 28, New York Daily News reported that Garner, 27, was declared brain dead by doctors without a chance of recovery. However, family members dispute the report. Hours after the report went viral, a person close to Garner tweeted from her account. The person tweeted, “I know that…

You can almost say that the day the New York police officer took Eric Garner’s life unnecessarily with a vicious chokehold in Staten Island in 2014, he also squeezed out most of the life of his daughter Erica. It just took until today for the female firebrand activist to slip physically to the precipice of…

The widow of Eric Garner has just received a major benefit when it comes to living in New York. Esaw Snipes was the legal wife of Garner who died at the hands of police as he yelled “I can’t breathe” on July 17, 2014. His tragic death was captured on video and was the source of…

An ugly and very public dispute between the family of Eric Garner and his girlfriend Jewel Miller has taken a new low. Miller is the mother of Garner’s 2-year-old daughter, Legacy, and had a three-year relationship with him prior to his death. Garner was married at the time to Esaw Garner and had four children.…

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…

Mothers of The Movement, Gwen Carr (Eric Garner) and Wanda Johnson (Oscar Grant) don’t want deaths of loved ones to have been in vain. Hear both women’s stories from WBLS’ Circle Of Sisters 2016.