NYPD Fires Cop Daniel Pantaleo 5 Years After He Killed Eric Garner
Written by SOURCE on August 19, 2019
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 a prohibited chokehold.
Earlier this month, a New York administrative judge recommended that Pantaleo be fired. In a statement, Eric’s daughter Emerald Garner Snipes expressed the family’s support of this recommendation and urged O’Neill to make a decision on it “as soon as possible.”
This story is being updated.
