Four years ago today, Eric Garner was killed on Staten Island by police. The 43-year-old father died after he was put in a chokehold by New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo. His last ...
On Wednesday, shortly after demonstrators had started to converge on New York City’s Times Square to protest the grand jury decision not to charge a New York police officer in the choke hold death of ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio says the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case is not the one many in New York City wanted. But the grand jury, after hearing from officer Daniel Pantaleo ...
“Hand’s up, don’t shoot” gesture on Canal Street (photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) We are in Foley square at 6pm, some of thousands gathered the day after a Staten Island ...
A new poll finds Mayor Bill de Blasio’s approval rating is slipping in the wake of protests surrounding the Eric Garner grand jury decision. A Quinnipiac University survey released Thursday said that ...
The NYPD officer who used a banned chokehold that led to the death of Eric Garner was fired Monday, five years after Garner’s final words — “I can’t breathe” — fueled the nationwide #BlackLivesMatter ...
NEW YORK — James P. O’Neill, the New York City police commissioner, could have dispensed with a decision five years in the making with a terse official statement. But in firing the police officer ...
Esaw Garner praised the decision to punish a police sergeant at the scene of her husband’s death but vowed Saturday to continue her battle for justice, the New York Daily News reports. Suggested ...
NEW YORK -- Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner, is suing to get his job back. Pantaleo was fired in August by New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill ...