Protesters Renew Calls For Justice 1 Year After Eric Garner’s Death

Garner’s stepfather, Ben Carr, told the New York Times that since his stepson’s death, some positive trends had emerged.

A protester is detained by New York Police Department officers during a rally for Eric Garner who wa … Pantaleo was enthusiastically adherent to the policy, racking up 259 arrests in cases that made it to court on Staten Island.

Cell phone video of the fatal encounter in July 2014 shows Garner, an African-American man, being held on the ground by an NYPD officer in an apparent chokehold.

Garner’s family is still calling for the USA attorney for the Eastern District of New York to launch a federal case against any officers involved in his death.

Garner’s family reached a settlement of almost $6 million with the city of New York this week over the death – the largest in the city’s history involving a police officer causing the death of a civilian.

The past year has become a whirlwind of activism for the Garner family, who attend and speak at rallies and candlelight vigils in commemoration of other victims of police violence. We should be able to seek criminal justice on these issues more easily than civil settlements.

The settlement will not erase a family’s pain or answer agonizing what-ifs: What if Officer Daniel Pantaleo had tried to be a peacemaker and not lunged for Garner’s neck?

The 24-year-old mother of a five-year-old girl said her father encouraged her to be a good mother, to stay in school, and then to seek a job.

De Blasio and religious leaders from different faiths gathered at a Staten Island church Tuesday evening just blocks from where Garner died to call for reconciliation.

“We are all familiar with the events that led to the death of Eric Garner and the extraordinary impact his passing has had on our City and our nation”, said Stringer. Garner was pronounced dead a shortly after the altercation.

BROOKLYN -The nationwide movement that emerged from a sidewalk in Staten Island exactly one year ago continues to swell with support.

De Blasio also said the police are testing the use of body cameras, and a new model of “neighborhood policing”, to help rebuild trust between the department and local residents.

“Here today, we stand wondering what to do next”, Price said.

Erica Garner and Emerald Snipes-Garner spoke, and each of them expressed the sadness of their lives without their father.

“You see it in their faces when they walk by here”. Garner, who was asthmatic, told officers 11 times that he couldn’t breathe, but Panteleo refused to loosen his grip.

With each arrest, Orta and his lawyers have denied wrongdoing and claimed he was being harassed and retaliated against for his role in the fallout after Garner’s death.