Police officer fired over chokehold death of Eric Garner

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The decision comes five years after Eric Garner's death.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced the decision in a press conference on Monday. In a lengthy speech describing the actions that led to Mr Garner's death, which fuelled support for the Black Lives Matter movement as the video of Mr Garner being choked to death spread, Mr O'Neill said that he would be adhering to a previous recommendation from a departmental judge for Mr Pantaleo's firing.

 

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It took FIVE YEARS to fire him?

should be locked up for murder..

FTFY: Police officer fired five years after choking Eric Garner to death

His blood is on his hand still, I pray Eric Garner spirit torments him for as long as he lives.

Only took 5 years.

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