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 * Daniel Pantaleo, the NYC police officer who applied the chokehold on Eric Garner has been suspended by the department, it has just been announced. The news of Pantaleo’s suspension follows the announcement on Friday that a departmental administrative judge officially recommended that the officer be terminated as a result of his controversial involvement […]

*Finally, justice was served when on Monday when New York City police detective Daniel Pantaleo was fired over his chokehold killing of Eric Garner. The decision to fire Pantaleo, whose deadly encounter with Garner was documented on video and sparked mass protests took five long years to happen. It can in the wake of an […]

Eric Garner choke hold pics *(Via BusinessInsider) – The parallels between Eric Garner’s senseless killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo on a Staten Island sidewalk in the summer of 2014 and Daunte Wright’s recent death are striking. Both were stopped for victimless crimes, and both died because police officers unnecessarily escalated situations in which they weren’t […]

[…] disagreed about what to do, reports USA Today. Not too surprisingly, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, made the final decision to not seek civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, a Justice Dept. official said. Garner, a 43-year-old black man, was accused of selling single cigarettes outside a store on Staten Island when Pantaleo attempted to […]

Daniel Pantaleo – Eric Garner (in chokehold) via YouTube *The man who filmed the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014 has been released from prison after serving four years. In 2016, Ramsey Orta was sentenced to prison for weapon possession as well as drug charges, per New York Daily News.  A year after filming Garner’s fatal arrest, Orta expressed regret for getting involved because the public attention ruined his life, Time magazine reported.  “Sometimes I regret just not minding my business,” he said. “Because it just put me in a messed-up predicament.” Ramsey Orta Here’s more from the Time report: Orta released the video to the New York Daily News the day after Garner’s death. Since then, Orta says that police have harassed him and his family. In the weeks after Garner’s death, he released two videos on YouTube in which he claims he was unfairly targeted by police. He says he was stopped twice for robberies in which he had no involvement and claims that police shone lights in the windows of his Staten Island home. On Feb. 10, Orta, his mother, and brother, Michael Batista, were arrested on multiple drug charges after police entered their home in the early morning hours. All three were charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor drug counts. Those cases are still pending. Orta’s mother says she’s been in therapy since the incident for what she describes as post-traumatic stress disorder. OTHER NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: Marques Houston, 38, Defends His Engagement to 19-Year-Old Fiancé Miya “The NYPD tried to send a message to New Yorkers and the world: if you film the police kill someone, it is you who is going to pay…. This messaging backfired and has only galvanized more people.” – @WeCopwatch on #RamseyOrta EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW on #AbolishThePolice and more >> https://t.co/fyp0lQ2S26 pic.twitter.com/9ib1368kab — Anti-Fascist AWK (@AWKWORDrap) June 9, 2020 Orta believes he was targeted by New York police after video went viral of Garner’s chokehold death at the hands of Officer Daniel Pantaleo.  Pantaleo was found guilty at a disciplinary trial, and fired in August 2019 without pension for using a chokehold on Garner. […]

*It’s about time. Federal prosecutors have a message for NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo. They plan to go after him with all cylinders firing for the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island. As was widely reported, Garner, 43, died in 2014 on a Staten Island street corner, where two police officers confronted him and accused […]

[…] 1993. As CBS News notes, that bill is named for Eric Garner; the Staten Island man who died back in 2014 while in police custody after Officer Daniel Pantaleo body-slammed him, and put him in a chokehold as he shouted out, “I can’t breathe” several times. Pantaleo was eventually fired. But after a years-long process, […]

[…] Garner in the face of monumental adversity. The adversity was the chokehold slaying of her father, Eric, in July 2014, by a New York City Police Officer, Daniel Pantaleo. The slaying was videotaped and ignited furor, and mass protests, demonstrations and demands for the prosecution of Pantaleo. That didn’t happen. There was some talk that […]

[…] it just put me in a messed-up predicament.” In 2016, he filed suit against the city, claiming he was arrested as payback for filming former NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s encounter with Garner. Garner could be heard saying “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe” as Pantaleo used a department-banned chokehold to force him onto the sidewalk. […]

[…] being accepted into our family, that’ll never happen,” Esaw Garner said when asked about the baby. The publication noted that prior to his fatal encounter with Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island last July, Garner had been living with Miller for three years. Last week, a DNA test recently confirmed that Legacy is Garner’s daughter, […]

[…] awarded in Garner’s wrongful death suit. A DNA test confirmed paternity and entitled Legacy to a portion of the settlement. Eric Garner was killed when NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo used an illegal chokehold on him during a misdemeanor arrest in July 2014. Federal prosecutors in Washington plan to pursue charges against Pantaleo for the chokehold […]

[…] saying that life has drastically changed for him and his family since that fateful day in July 2014 when he captured Garner’s fatal encounter with NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Garner’s demise came after Pantaleo refused to let go of a chokehold he put him in while arresting him for suspicion of selling illegal cigarettes on […]

[…] Island, filmed Garner’s death in July 2014 via a lesser-known video. In the video, Garner is shown moments after being placed in a chokehold by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo and laying incapacitated on the sidewalk while other officers and emergency medical workers stood nearby. Garner ultimately died. Although his death was ruled a homicide, officer […]

[…] outside of a beauty supply store in Staten Island, New York when police tried to arrest him for allegedly illegally selling loose cigarettes. The video of Officer Daniel Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold went viral. Although the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, a grand jury has thus far declined to indict Pantaleo. […]

[…] standing outside of a beauty supply store in Staten Island, New York when police tried to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The video of Officer Daniel Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold went viral. Although the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, a grand jury has thus far declined to indict Pantaleo. […]