“He should’ve decided against resisting arrest,' said NYPD commissioner James P. O’Neill
Former NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Photo: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/Shutterstock Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner in 2014, was fired on Monday. The announcement from Commissioner James P.
But until now, accountability for the perpetrator remained elusive. Pantaleo was confined to desk duty but faced no other administrative repercussions. He was still being paid upward of $100,000 annually as the police department mulled and stalled on holding disciplinary hearings and William Barr’s Justice Department announced it would not file civil-rights charges against him.
Taken together, this framing gives the impression that blame for Garner’s death is shared between him and the man who killed him — as if being choked to death by a police officer was, at its core, a matter of one’s personal health or physical fitness. “Every time I watch that video, I say to myself, as probably all of you do, to Mr. Garner, ‘Don’t do it. Comply,’” said O’Neill. “To Officer Pantaleo: ‘Don’t do it.
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