eric-garner
Ramsey Orta, the man who shot the footage of Eric Garner‘s 2014 arrest (which Garner later died from), was let out of prison on May 28, according to Rolling Stone. Orta’s prison sentence is officially set to expire on July 11, though he’ll be under court supervision up until January 2022. Orta’s release is just […]
Daniel Pantaleo, the former New York cop who was fired earlier this year for his use of a chokehold on Eric Garner, is now suing the New York City Police Department to get his job back. A suit was filed Wednesday in which Pantaleo and his lawyer call the firing decision “arbitrary and capricious,” according to […]
Cop Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, has been fired. The move comes five years after Garner’s death and will be announced Monday by New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill, per The Daily Beast. The termination, per the report, is the result of the department determining Pantaleo had violated policy by using […]
Days after the Justice Department said it won’t be bringing civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer responsible for choking Eric Garner to death, the victim’s daughter, Emerald, launched a petition on Change.org demanding that he be fired from the NYPD. “Hello I am the youngest daughter of Eric Garner, Emerald Garner, please hear my message and […]
NYPD union lawyers believe Eric Garner‘s poor health led to his death, not Officer Daniel Pantaleo‘s chokehold. Pantaleo’s attorney, Stuart London, told the court that his client should be cleared of all fault because Garner “died from being morbidly obese.” “He was a ticking time bomb that resisted arrest,” London said during an administrative hearing. “If he […]
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