Tag Archives: Eric Garner

The New York Times published research that contains data regarding the number of deaths that occurred in police custody after detainees said, “I Can’t Breathe.” According to the report, at least 70 people have died in law enforcement custody after pleading that they couldn’t breathe. The victims ranged in age …

In a now-deleted Instagram post, retired New York Police Department spokesman Michael DeBonis condemned the officers that killed Eric Garner with a chokehold, according to the New York Post. In DeBonis’ post, he wrote that “it was a horrible injustice that is forever a part of our history,” what happened …

Daniel Pantaleo, the officer responsible for using an illegal chokehold that killed Eric Garner back in 2014, is suing the New York Police Department and the police commissioner to get his job back. Pantaleo’s lawyer, Stuart London, told the New York Post that they filed the lawsuit on Wednesday and …

The director of the upcoming film “American Trial: The Eric Garner Story” opens up about developing a film based on the murder of Eric Garner. This will be #RoeeMessinger’s first time making a film, and instead of portraying the real-events of Garner’s case, Messinger will be portraying what would have …

Only one day before the fifth anniversary of Eric Garner’s passing, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn plan to announce that no civil rights or criminal charges will be brought against Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer responsible for Garner’s death. The Justice Department has decided not to bring federal charges against Pantaleo, …

The officer responsible for the chokehold death of Eric Garner is set to face trial next May. It’s been five years since Daniel Pantaleo, a white officer, took the life of Garner, an unarmed Black man who screamed “I can’t breathe,” before being brutally choked. Previously, Pantaleo’s lawyer tried to …

The NYPD cops responsible for the murder of #EricGarner “will immediately begin” an internal disciplinary trial. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On Thursday, an NYPD department spokesman said Officer Daniel Pantaleo and Sgt. Kizzy Adonis “will immediately begin an internal disciplinary process for the 2014 choking death of 43-year-old EricGarner. “The U.S. Department of …

-blogged by @theRealAlexisDanielle Years after #EricGarner was killed on the street during an encounter with police, civil rights charges are being sought but are expected to be rejected. Now, for his mother, police reform is the goal to bring justice to her son’s death. In an editorial by the NY …

Just days after suffering a massive heart attack that left the daughter of Eric Garner with “major brain damage,” activist Erica Garner has passed away. The 27-year-old, who fought for change after the 2014 death of her father in which an NYPD officer placed him in a fatal chokehold during …

Just days after suffering from a heart attack, new reports reveal that Erica Garner, the daughter of NYPD chokehold victim Eric Garner, has sustained “major brain damage” from the attack. Last weekend, the 27-year-old activist went into cardiac arrest after the heart attack which was triggered by an asthma attack, …