New York police fire officer who placed Eric Garner in deadly chokehold

NEW YORK - The white New York City police officer who used a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner during a 2014 arrest was fired on Monday, five years after video of the encounter fueled nationwide protests against police brutality.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced his decision to accept the judge’s recommendation and fire Pantaleo at a news conference on Monday. Pantaleo’s use of a banned chokehold on July 17, 2014, even if only for a few seconds, meant that he could no longer “effectively serve” as a city police officer, O’Neill said.

“It is absolutely essential that the world know that the New York Police Department is rudderless and frozen,” Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, told a news conference, standing in front of a department flag that had been symbolically inverted. “The job is dead,” Lynch said.

NYPD officers look on as people attend a press conference of Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner outside Police Headquarters in New York, U.S., August 19, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozAt a news conference uptown with the civil rights leader Al Sharpton, Garner’s daughter Emerald wore a T-shirt with “MURDERER” emblazoned across the front.

“Pantaleo, you may have lost your job, but I lost a son,” Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, told reporters outside the police department’s headquarters in lower Manhattan.

Word is, he's been accepted in Fergusen...

What a miscarriage of justice! A murderer gets fired from his job as punishment.

He should sue the city of NY for wrongful termination.

He needs to be tried for his crime.

Protect & Serve, was so much better than occupy and impose.

After 5 years? What a joke

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