Sentences with phrase «apparent chokehold»

STATEN ISLAND — The NYPD officer at the center of the tragic apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner testified Friday morning before a Staten Island grand jury, DNAinfo New York has learned.

Some of the new hires would help support the massive retraining of the 35,000 - member department Bratton ordered in the wake of the July 17 death of Eric Garner, who died in police custory from an apparent chokehold.

The Republican prosecutor said that the information from the autopsy that determined Mr. Garner's death — following the application of an apparent chokehold by Officer Daniel Pantaleo last month — was a homicide, compelled his decision to impanel 23 civilians to hear evidence and vote on whether Mr. Pantaleo or any of the other cops who brought him to the ground will be tried in court.

Minority communities and police have clashed over the years and bad blood boiled again this summer when a black Staten Island man died in policy custody after he was placed in an apparent chokehold.

Garner, 43, a black Staten Island man, died after a white police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, placed him in an apparent chokehold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Mr. Garner, 43, of Staten Island, died after police used an apparent chokehold to take him to the ground during an arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in Staten Island.

Garner, 43, died last month after a cop placed him in an apparent chokehold while seeking to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

In the cellphone video that captured his arrest, an unarmed Garner resists arrest, is wrestled to the ground and repeats the phrase «I can't breathe» nearly a dozen times while being placed in an apparent chokehold by New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

The march is expected to start at 11 a.m. on Victory Boulevard and Bay Street, near where Garner died from an apparent chokehold.

In an interview with former mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis on his Sunday morning radio show «Cats Round Table,» Donovan said he assigned eight lawyers and 10 investigators, who work independently from the NYPD, to the case of Garner, 43, who died last month from an apparent chokehold while being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes.

The attorney general asked for the appointment shortly after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who applied an apparent chokehold that a medical examiner said killed Staten Islander Eric Garner, who is black.

The city has been swept by a string of protests over the past several weeks after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.

Mr. Oddo pointed out that Mr. Donovan, whose office is tasked with investigating the death of the unarmed 43 - year - old black man who was put in an apparent chokehold by police, once worked for legendary former Manhattan District Attorney and Democrat Robert Morgenthau.

In December 2014 a grand jury decided not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who was filmed by a cell phone camera putting Garner in an apparent chokehold.

The return of Michael Julian, a lawyer and former NYPD Chief of Personnel, to examine the NYPD's tactics in the wake of the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner will be a key factor in how Bratton reshapes the way police officers make arrests and deal with the public in general, insiders say.

Mr. Bratton spoke little about the incident during his hourlong talk at the college — at one point hastening to point out it is under investigation — but after his remarks echoed the mayor in trying to differentiate between that shooting, the apparent chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, and the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, where a grand jury will report tonight whether they will indict the officer involved.

Referring to Garner, the black Staten Island man who died in police custody after he was placed in an apparent chokehold, Mr. Powell — speaking to reporters with the parents of Gurley at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn — compared a recent spate of fatal confrontations between police and people of color to a «series of modern day lynchings.»

Garner, who was being arrested for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, died in police custody in July after an officer placed him in an apparent chokehold.

Here in New York City, de Blasio has had to reckon with the death of Eric Garner, who was placed in an apparent chokehold by police, and the recent unprovoked shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed man who was shot in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex by a rookie cop on patrol.

Mr. Garner, 43, died after police used an apparent chokehold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.