Sentences with phrase «apparent police chokehold»
After last year's fatal police shooting of a man in Ferguson, Missouri, and after a man died in an apparent police chokehold in Staten Island, New York, the district attorney in Orange County has announced a protocol for officer - involved deadly - force encounters.
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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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Mr. Garner, 43, died after police used an apparent chokehold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.