The disciplinary trial of the New York City policeman who fatally choked an unar...
NEW YORK - The disciplinary trial of the New York City policeman who fatally choked an unarmed black suspect in 2014 opened on Monday with the officer’s lawyer shredding a copy of the autopsy report that concluded the man, Eric Garner, was killed by a chokehold.
In the first day of the trial, Stuart London, one of Pantaleo’s lawyers, dramatically tore up a copy of the official autopsy report by the chief medical examiner’s office. It ruled that Garner was killed in part by a chokehold compressing his neck. The New York Police Department has banned its officers from using chokeholds for decades.
“His last words, ‘I can’t breathe,’ tell you who caused his death,” Jonathan Fogel, a prosecutor for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, said during opening statements. Fogel said Pantaleo “gave his victim a death sentence over loose cigarettes because he disregarded his training.” London blamed Garner’s death on paramedics, who he said did “almost nothing” once they arrived, and on Garner’s health problems, including hypertension and asthma.
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