Sentences with phrase «police chokehold»

The PBA letter is the latest salvo in the relationship between the PBA and the de Blasio administration since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent police chokehold death of Eric Garner.

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.

NYPD brass pulled an about - face on the sergeant who was at the scene of the Eric Garner police chokehold death — first telling her she's being restored to full duty, then yanking her ID instead when she showed up at police headquarters Friday to get her gun back.

They also hope to win his support for a bill making police chokeholds a crime.

Advocates have pressured Mayor Bill de Blasio to fire Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer involved in Garner's death, and to criminally ban police chokeholds.

Gwen Carr, the mother of 2014 fatal police chokehold victim Eric Garner, railed against Mark - Viverito's deal with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to enact similar measures administratively.

Among those who asked Cuomo to empower the attorney general was the mother of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died after a videotaped police chokehold.

How Lancman gained the Speaker's favor is not clear — perhaps his vow to introduce a bill outlawing police chokeholds was enough to bring him out of the outer darkness.

A man's death after a possible police chokehold has prompted a sweeping review of the NYPD's use of force — with every officer set to be retrained and teams flown...

As CBS2's Sonia Rincon reported, a bill that would criminalize police chokeholds has been gaining momentum, even though the mayor said this week that he would veto it.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton sent New Yorkers an important message Tuesday in the wake of Eric Garner's death, allegedly by police chokehold: There is no constitutional right to resist arrest...

It has also been a year since Queens Councilman Rory Lancman proposed a new law that would make illegal police chokeholds like the one that killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — a proposal with 27 co-sponsors of its own.

Capers, whose father and brother both served in the NYPD, was overseeing the troubled grand jury in the Eric Garner police chokehold case.

On Jan. 7, 2016 after Mike McMahon was sworn in as DA, Judge McMahon handled the decision whether to allow video as evidence in the case against Ramsey Orta case (the man who filmed the Eric Garner police chokehold death).

But one thing that hasn't budged since the black Staten Island man died from an apparent police chokehold in July is Mayor Bill de Blasio's standing with the black community in New York City.

With protests breaking out around the country against police brutality, Hakeem Jeffries introduced a bill to ban police chokeholds, the irresponsible practice which led to the death of Eric Garner last year.

Protesters will convene at the spot in Tompkinsville where Garner was placed in a fatal police chokehold and march to the Staten Island District Attorney's office, before rallying nearby.

The longtime girlfriend of police chokehold victim Eric Garner implored the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo on federal civil rights charges.

At a breakfast meeting in Midtown Tuesday morning, Bratton expressed his disapproval for proposed legislation that would make police chokeholds a criminal offense, regulation that would require cops to identify themselves while doing a stop, as well as a proposal that would require officers to be granted permission to do a search.

Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, saying the public needs to reconcile a widely watched video of the arrest with the decision not to indict the officer involved.

[Civil liberties lawyers urged a state judge to reverse Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's attempt to keep secret the grand jury testimony concerning the police chokehold death of Eric Garner....]

Gurley's death came less than six months after Eric Garner died of a police chokehold on Staten Island.

The bystander who recorded the 2014 death of Eric Garner on Staten Island in an apparent police chokehold was the only individual arrested so far in that incident.

The medical examiner ruled that a police chokehold led to Garner's death.

Union leaders zeroed in on the protests that erupted in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, who died of an apparent police chokehold, saying that the marchers were allowed to take over the streets without consequences.

Mr. Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney, handled the investigation into the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, an inquiry that touched off demonstrations across the city and beyond when a grand jury declined to deliver an indictment.

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

A lifelong Staten Island resident, she has covered thousands of stories in the borough, from the police chokehold death of Eric Garner to the campaign by disgraced former Rep. Michael Grimm to reclaim his old congressional seat.

A federal civil rights investigation into the police chokehold death of Eric Garner has been moving forward in New York, but its future is uncertain as a U.S. attorney general with a law - and - order bent takes over the Justice Department.

He would not weigh in on pending disciplinary charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner after a police chokehold, but he did acknowledge the irony inherent in the fact that the information would actually get out anyway.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused de Blasio of being anti-police for the way he responded to a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to issue indictments in the police chokehold death of Eric Garner.

One of the blockaded measures is Lancman's proposal to illegalize the police chokehold, the maneuver Officer Daniel Pantaleo used to fatal effect on Garner.

-- the last words of black Staten Islander Eric Garner as he died in a police chokehold --» Tell the boss we need more barricades!

This month, Mr. Stringer announced a $ 5.9 million agreement with the family of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after being placed in a police chokehold last year.

Whether or not a police chokehold caused Eric Garner's death on Staten Island last year depends on whom you ask.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was furious when the Rev. Al Sharpton lectured and threatened him from the dais at last week's City Hall meeting over the police chokehold death of...

The FBI is «monitoring» the NYPD's probe into the death of a Staten Island man after he was put in a police chokehold — and may open its own investigation...

In January, Mr. Cuomo — spurred by the decision in December not to bring an indictment in the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a police chokehold on Staten Island — outlined a seven - point plan to improve relations between the public and law enforcement.

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.

The mother of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man killed in a police chokehold, says Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill do not need to wait for the U.S. Department of Justice to take action against the officer who killed her son — and blasted them for preventing the city's independent oversight entity from prosecuting him.

Queens Councilman Rory Lancman's proposal to illegalize the use of police chokeholds — like the one that killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — has also gotten stalled in committee, despite enjoying the support of a majority of the Council's members.

«What happened in Staten Island clearly showed us something was wrong,» Adams said, referring to Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who was killed in a police chokehold in 2014.