Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer accused of holding Eric Garner in a chokehold during his fatal arrest, was fired on Monday, over five years after the incident sparked a national outcry against police brutality and became a defining moment in the Black Lives Matter movement, The New York Times reports. New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced the dismissal just two weeks after a police administrative judge found Pantaleo guilty of using a banned chokehold against Garner.
“The unintended consequence of Mr. Garner’s death must have a consequence of its own,...
“The unintended consequence of Mr. Garner’s death must have a consequence of its own,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
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