Officers are not supposed to use this tactic of essentially choking someone into unconsciousness to subdue them. Please just leave me alone. His death was recently ruled a homicide by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office and Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to work with “all authorities involved” to “ensure a fair and justified outcome.”Demonstrators chant as they march towards the 120th Precinct following a vigil demanding justice for Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died while being arrested by New York City police, on July 22, 2014, in New York. He's still feeding his kids, when my husband is six feet under and I'm looking for a way to feed my kids now. In a study on how implicit bias affects policing, renowned UCLA psychologist Phillip Goff found that blatant, outward signs of racism are not, in fact, the key predictor of police using excessive force in an encounter. "Garner's death has been cited as one of several police killings of African Americans protested by the As a result of Garner's death, Police Commissioner An Indiana police officer sold T-shirts saying "Breathe Easy. I'm tired of it. She added, "No, I don't accept his apology.
I told you the last time, please just leave me alone.When Pantaleo approached Garner from behind and attempted to handcuff him, Garner pulled his arms away, saying, "Don't touch me, please. Everyone standing here will tell you I didn't do nothing.
"A police sergeant called an ambulance and indicated that Mr. Garner was having trouble breathing, but reportedly added that he "did not appear to be in great distress".A funeral was held for Garner on July 23, 2014, at Bethel Baptist Church in On July 20, Pantaleo was put on desk duty and stripped of his service handgun and badge.Garner's death was also found by the medical examiner to have resulted from "compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police".Sharpton organized a protest in Staten Island on the afternoon of July 19; he condemned the use of a chokehold on Garner, saying that "there is no justification" for it.On July 28, a protest organized by WalkRunFly Productions and poet Daniel J. Watts was held in Under New York law, most of the grand jury proceedings were kept secret, including the exact charges sought by the prosecutor, the autopsy report, and transcripts of testimony. Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. NYPD officers approached Garner on July 17 on suspicion of selling Eric Garner (September 15, 1970 – July 17, 2014) was an Garner had been arrested by the NYPD more than 30 times since 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny.At the time of Garner's death, Daniel Pantaleo was a 29-year-old New York City Police Department officer living in After prosecutors questioned whether the money raised for his bail was crowd-sourced legally, Orta was released on bail on April 10, 2015.In 2016, he was sentenced to four years in prison for weapons and drug charges after accepting a However, Garner had fewer than 100 cigarettes in his possession at the time of his death.Pantaleo's disciplinary hearing concluded on June 6, 2019.On August 19, 2019, O'Neill terminated Pantaleo's employment with the New York Police Department,On June 8, 2020, both houses of the New York state assembly passed the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act, which stipulates that any police officer in the state of New York who injures or kills somebody through the use of "a chokehold or similar restraint" can be charged with a class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.July 2014 death of an African American man after an arrest by police officers in New YorkLarry Celona, Kirstan Conley, Bruce Golding - New York Post -
Photographs of Eric Garner, from left, with his younger brother Emery, for his high school graduation and with his wife, Esaw, during a family vacation in 2011. Don't Break the Law. The mayor’s response and examiner’s ruling are both indictments of Officer Pantaleo’s actions, which were already illegal according to the NYPD’s own guidelines.