Sentences with phrase «apparent chokehold death»
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.
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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.
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.
He mentioned the raw anger that stemmed from the assassinations, and from the death of Eric Garner this past summer following an apparent police chokehold.
They echoed Mr. Schneiderman's concerns and lamented the outcome of the Garner case, where a white police officer was not indicted despite placing Garner, who was black, in an apparent chokehold that many say led to his death in July.