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Disciplinary Hearing Wraps Up for NYPD Officer Who Choked Eric Garner to Death

HeadlineJun 07, 2019

A New York Police Department disciplinary hearing wrapped up Thursday for Daniel Pantaleo, a white police officer who killed unarmed African American Eric Garner in 2014 by putting him in a chokehold and refusing to let go even as Garner repeatedly gasped “I can’t breathe.” Pantaleo never faced criminal prosecution, after a grand jury decided not to indict him. He has remained on the police force but could lose his job and pension if found guilty of violating NYPD procedures. A presiding judge will send a recommendation about Pantaleo’s fate to Police Commissioner James O’Neill in the coming weeks. Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, called Thursday for all the officers present at her son’s killing to be fired.

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