BREAKING: Five years after killing Eric Garner, NYPD fires officer Daniel Pantaleo
Five years after Eric Garner’s dying plea “I can’t breathe” became the rallying cry against police brutality across the nation, the police officer who killed him has been fired, a senior law-enforcement official told The Daily Beast.
Pantaleo had not faced official sanction for his actions until now, only being placed on desk duty. The Justice Department in July declined to charge Pantaleo with violating Garner’s civil rights. A Staten Island grand jury in 2014 declined to indict Pantaleo. Garner yelled “I can’t breathe” 11 times during the chokehold as officers pressed him into the sidewalk. But it was not until after the officers heard Garner’s pleas that they called for an ambulance. Paramedics awaited several minutes before giving Garner oxygen.
Immediately after the video went viral, thousands of protesters occupied parks and highways across the city with signs baring Garner’s face and slogans of “I can’t breathe.” Weeks later, Garner’s infamous death was joined by rage over the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
NYPD chief administrative judge Rosemarie Maldonado concluded in her 46-page opinion after the trial that Pantaleo should be fired for using the “reckless” chokehold that killed Garner and for lying about it to investigators. .
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