Sentences with phrase «chokehold by the officer»

If you haven't already seen the video of the nearly 8 - minute chokehold by the officer on Garner, you can watch it here.

Eric Garner (r.) seen during the arrest where he was put into a chokehold by Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

The tactic was widely criticized by police reform advocates after Eric Garner was placed in a fatal chokehold by an officer attempting to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes on Bay Street in Tompkinsville.

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.

Not exact matches

Federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a grand jury in Brooklyn in the death of Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white police officer in Staten Island in July 2014, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The death of Eric Garner by an illegal chokehold is only one example of unwarranted practices and the use of excessive force exercised by some NYPD officers.

«The world saw an African - American man in Staten Island die,» Cuomo said, specifically referring to Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold while he was arrested by a white police officer.

Eric Garner, 44, died last year from a police chokehold as he was arrested by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for selling untaxed cigarettes.

The Nassau County Police Department's revamped use - of - force policy urges officers to use de-escalation methods rather than physical force, expands and tracks the incidents involving physical force reviewed by top brass and limits the use of the controversial chokehold.

Abinanti's announcement comes one day after Schneiderman sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking an executive order that would give the automtically make the AG a special prosecutor in instances like the death of Eric Garner following a chokehold administered by an NYPD officer until such time that the governor and legislative leaders agree on permanent statutory reforms.

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Court records obtained by the AP show Richmond University Medical Center has agreed to pay $ 1 million to the family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a white NYPD officer.

Mr. Bratton's comments came after several elected officials at a City Hall rally, including State Senator Bill Perkins and Councilwoman Inez Barron, said Mr. Garner would not have been stopped and placed in a chokehold by NYPD officers if he were white.

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 move came in a letter that Schneiderman sent to Cuomo Monday and was sparked by the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict a white officer in the chokehold death of a black man, Eric Garner.

The move comes in the wake of the decision by a Staten Island grand jury to not indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner whom police were trying to arrest for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

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.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

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 NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released this past Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

Under legislation proposed by Rory Lancman, officers caught using a chokehold — defined as wrapping the hands or arms around someone's neck and compressing their windpipe to restrict the flow of air or squeezing their carotid artery to interrupt the flow of blood — would face misdemeanor charges.

The report covered 10 cases between 2009 and 2014 where the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined officers used chokeholds, but the office delayed the release of their 34 - page report by three weeks after the shootings deaths of the two police officers in Brooklyn last month.

The mayor forcefully denounced anti-police rhetoric espoused by some activists who were planning protests, and said he would veto a City Council bill to criminally ban the use of chokeholds by police officers.

MIDTOWN — Police officers were quick to use banned chokeholds during arrests and discipline was lax and inconsistent for those found to have used the technique, according to the first report by the NYPD's inspector general.

After a Staten Island grand jury decided in December not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the July chokehold death of Eric Garner, a request for disclosure of the transcripts and evidence presented to the grand jury was brought before the court by Public Advocate James, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and The New York Post.

Livid locals rallied at the Tompkinsville site where Garner, a black Staten Island man, was placed in a chokehold by a police officer in July and died.

A cell phone frame grab shows the arrest of Eric Garner for selling loose cigarettes in July 2014 on Staten Island, moments before he was taken down and put in a lethal chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

A grand jury on Staten Island is also hearing evidence in the July death of Eric Garner, who died after being put in a chokehold by a police officer in July.

The court's second ruling ended a suit by the Legal Aid Society, which had sought the release of the disciplinary records from the Civilian Complaint Review Board of one officer in particular: Daniel Pantaleo, who had placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold moments before he died on a Staten Island sidewalk in July 2014.

HARLEM — The family of Eric Garner said Tuesday that their $ 5.9 million settlement with the city over the Staten Island man's death after he was placed in a chokehold by police does not equal justice and that they want the officers responsible held accountable.

Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who could be seen in the video placing Garner in a chokehold, was not indicted by a grand jury.

In New York last summer, Eric Garner died after being placed in a banned chokehold by a police officer.

Garner had been put in a chokehold by a police officer on Staten Island, N.Y.; his death was later ruled a homicide.