* Eric Garner died in July 2014 after being pulled to the ground * Federal prosecutors earlier this month declined to bring chargesDaniel Pantaleo pictured in May this year. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/APA judge has recommended that Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer implicated in the chokehold
A judge has recommended that Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer implicated in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, be fired.
Garner died on 17 July 2014, after Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold and pulled him to the ground. Video footage showed Garner pleading with police officers, repeatedly saying: “I can’t breathe.” The phrase became a national rallying cry for activists battling police brutality. NYPD’s deputy commissioner of trials, Rosemarie Maldonado, said in a report to police commissioner James O’Neill that Pantaleo should be fired. The decision is a recommendation, rather than a binding verdict. The final decision will be taken by O’Neill.
Despite nationwide uproar, Pantaleo kept his job with the New York police department. His continued employment became an issue in the second Democratic debate on Wednesday, when protestors chanted: “Fire Pantaleo” at New York mayor Bill de Blasio. In July 2019 federal prosecutors said they would not bring charges against Pantaleo. In 2014 a grand jury in Staten Island declined to charge Pantaleo, despite a medical examiner ruling Garner’s death a homicide.
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