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Jun 13, 2015 · Beyond the Chokehold: The Path to Eric Garner’s Death - The New York Times. After the fatal confrontation with the police on Staten Island was captured on video, the focus on an officer’s...
Jul 15, 2020 · On July 17, 2014, two New York Police Department officers confront Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American father of six, for illegally selling cigarettes. Garner dies after losing...
- A 5-Year Battle For Justice
- A Family Fights For Change and Suffers Another Loss
- His Last Words, An Emerging Movement
- One Last Chance
The death of Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, was ruled a homicide in August 2014 by Dr. Floriana Persechino, a senior medical examiner for New York City. In Persechino's report, she not only conducted a traditional autopsy, but used the cellphone video to determine that a "chokehold" triggered a fatal cascade of events, including an asthma att...
Garner's eldest daughter and namesake, Erica, became an outspoken activist -- along with her grandmother, Gwen Carr -- calling for justice for her father. She also released a song called "This Ends Today," which includes audio from her father's confrontation with the officers. Tragically, Erica Garner passed away in December 2017 after suffering a ...
"I can’t breathe!" Before Garner’s death was captured on camera and seen around the world, a relatively new hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, was taking form. Following the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Florida community watchman who shot an unarmed 17-year-old boy wearing a hoodie -- Trayvon Martin, who Zimmerman said looked "suspicious" -- a gr...
In 2017, a Staten Island civil court judge approved a $4 million wrongful death settlement for the Garner family. Still, years after his death and the NYPD announced departmental chargesagainst Pantaleo, no criminal charges have been filed against the officer. The move came on the heels of a letter sent to the Department of Justice by the NYPD's de...
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Nov 6, 2021 · The death of Eric Garner has reverberated with unanswered questions and fresh developments over the seven years since a New York police officer placed him in a banned chokehold. But on...
- Troy Closson
Oct 26, 2021 · Eric Garner’s mother and other police reform advocates have begun questioning New York Police Department officers in court as part of a judicial inquiry on issues surrounding her son’s...
May 26, 2020 · Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after he was held in an apparent chokehold by a New York Police Department officer in July 2014, said Tuesday that she could...
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- Erik Ortiz,Gabe Gutierrez
