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Jul 15, 2020 · Learn about the 2014 incident that sparked outrage and the Black Lives Matter movement. Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American, died after a police officer put him in an illegal chokehold for selling cigarettes.
Jul 31, 2014 · The article argues that implicit bias and police culture contributed to the homicide of Eric Garner, who was killed by an illegal chokehold in 2014. It calls for a culture change and education to prevent similar tragedies.
- Judith Browne Dianis
- Eric Garner
- Michael Brown
- Akai Gurley
- Tamir Rice
- Freddie Gray
- Philando Castile
- Stephon Clark
- Botham Jean
- Atatiana Jefferson
- Breonna Taylor
Garner, 43, was confronted by undercover police on July 17, 2014, on Staten Island in New York City and accused of selling untaxed cigarettes, also known as loosies. A video of the encounter showed the more than 300-pound Garner, who was unarmed, resisting and saying he was tired of being harassed as officers moved in to arrest him. One undercover ...
Brown, 18, was shot to death on Aug. 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, during an encounter with Darren Wilson, who was then a Ferguson police officer. Wilson, who is white, was investigating a complaint of shoplifting at a convenience store and claimed Brown matched the description of one of the suspects when he saw the teenage...
Gurley, 28, was with his girlfriend in the stairwell of a Brooklyn, New York, public housing project on Nov. 20, 2014, after she had just braided his hair when two New York City police officers on foot patrol entered the same darkened stairwell. One of the officers, Peter Liang, who had drawn his pistol, fired a single shot. The bullet ricocheted o...
Rice, 12, was alone at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland on Nov. 22, 2014, playing with a replica toy Airsoft gun when a 911 dispatcher received word from a caller that a male was in the park randomly pointing a gun at people. While the 911 caller told the dispatcher the gun was "probably fake," the detail was never relayed to the two polic...
Gray, 25, was taken into police custodyin Baltimore on April 12, 2015, for possessing a knife. He was handcuffed and placed in a police van and while being transported to a stationhouse, he sustained a spinal injury and went into a coma. Gray died in a hospital about a week after his arrest, prompting riots in Baltimore and protests across the coun...
Castile, 32, was with his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter when he was pulled over on July 6, 2016, in St. Anthony, Minnesota, a suburb of Saint Paul. St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo Yanez asked for Castile's license and registration. Yanez, a Hispanic-American, also inquired if Castile had any firearms. Castile told Yanez that he did hav...
Clark, 22, was shot multiple times in Sacramento, California, on March 18, 2018, setting off days of protests in the state capital and across the country. The fatal shooting occurred after officers responded to a 911 call reporting someone breaking car windows. Authorities said a police helicopter spotted Clark in the area and followed him, eventua...
Jean, 27, an accountant at the international auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, was in his apartment eating ice cream on Sept. 6, 2018, when Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger entered his home after mistaking it for her own and fatally shot Jeanbelieving he was an intruder. Guyger was fired from her job, arrested and charged with Jean's killing....
Jefferson, 28, was in her home playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2019, when she heard a disturbance in the backyard of her family's Fort Worth, Texas, home. She grabbed a registered pistol from her purse, went to a bedroom window to investigate and was fatally shot by a police officer,who went to the house afte...
Taylor, 26, a licensed EMT, was shot to death in her own apartmentin Louisville, Kentucky, when three white police officers executed a no-knock warrant on March 13. The three plainclothes police officers rammed down the door and were alleged to have "blindly" opened fire into Taylor's apartment, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in April ...
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Jul 16, 2019 · It has been five years since the last words Eric Garner would ever utter was captured on his friend's cellphone video. The almost three-minute clip shows Garner's interaction with NYPD Officers Daniel Pantaleo and Justin D'Amico for allegedly selling loose untaxed cigarettes on Staten Island, New York.
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Aug 2, 2019 · What you need to know about the Eric Garner case. From CNN's Deborah Bloom and Jareen Imam. Spencer Platt/Getty Image. Confronted by police trying to arrest him for allegedly selling illegal...
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Killing of Eric Garner. / 40.63716; -74.07674. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American man, was killed in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him.
Oct 25, 2021 · Eric Garner’s death touched off pressure for greater accountability in the deaths of Black people at the hands of the police. Byron Smith for The New York Times. By Troy Closson. Published...
