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Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - chairman - 08-02-2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A medical examiner ruled Friday that a police officer's chokehold caused the death of a man whose videotaped arrest and final pleas of "I can't breathe!" sparked outrage and led to the overhaul of use-of-force training for the nation's largest police department.
Eric Garner, a black man whose confrontation with a white police officer has prompted calls by the Rev. Al Sharpton for federal prosecution, was killed by neck compressions from the chokehold and "the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police," city medical examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer said.
Asthma, heart disease and obesity were contributing factors in the death of the 43-year-old Garner, a 6-foot-3, 350-pound father of six, she said.
The finding increases the likelihood that the case will be presented to a grand jury to determine whether Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who placed Garner in the chokehold, or any other officers involved in the confrontation will face criminal charges. Pantaleo's attorney, Stuart London, declined to comment.
Garner's wife, Esaw Garner, told the Daily News, "Thank God the truth is finally out."
Mayor Bill de Blasio extended his sympathies to Garner's family in a statement and pledged to continue repairing the relationship between minority communities and the New York Police Department.
"I've said that we would make change, and we will," he said.
Chokeholds are prohibited by the NYPD, but partial video of the July 17 confrontation shows an officer placing a chokehold on Garner, who was being arrested on suspicion of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes. Garner then apparently loses consciousness.
Word of the medical examiner's ruling spread Friday among passers-by on the Staten Island street where the police confronted Garner and where candles from a makeshift memorial flicker. Garner's neighbor Charlene Thomas said the officers involved must be punished.
"They killed somebody," Thomas said. "Why, because they're cops, they gotta get away with this?"
A spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said prosecutors were still investigating the death and awaited a full autopsy report and death certificate from the medical examiner. Donovan will have to determine whether to empanel a grand jury and charge officers in Garner's death.
Federal officials are monitoring the investigation, a Department of Justice spokeswoman said, adding that the department has not begun its own inquiry.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said officials were aware of the medical examiner's findings and the department is cooperating with prosecutors. He has said the NYPD's use-of-force training is lacking and has pledged to retrain all 35,000 officers.
Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and badge pending the investigation, and another officer was placed on desk duty. Two paramedics and two emergency medical technicians were suspended without pay.
The president of the powerful Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, expressed his sympathies to Garner's family but noted Garner "was a man with serious health problems."
"We believe, however, that if he had not resisted the lawful order of the police officers placing him under arrest, this tragedy would not have occurred," he said.
Garner's family will join Sharpton on Saturday to address the medical examiner's ruling, a spokeswoman said.
Ramsey Orta, a friend of Garner's who videotaped his struggle with police, said the medical examiner's ruling wasn't surprising.
"I knew that was the cause because I saw it," he said. "Now somebody should get charged."
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - ali - 08-02-2014
That cop and the ones around him knew that what they were doing was wrong. All of the cops that stood by should be charged as accessories.
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - The Professor - 08-02-2014
I didnt know they had to state the obvious for it to be official. But its good that it is officially a homicide. Now maybe they can charge his murderers aka the police.
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - karlaa - 08-02-2014
Doubt he'll be convicted in New York.
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - Livvy - 08-03-2014
[quote author=The Professor link=topic=91636.msg578849#msg578849 date=1407016299]
I didnt know they had to state the obvious for it to be official. But its good that it is officially a homicide. Now maybe they can charge his murderers aka the police.
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Everything has to be official, even if you know exactly what happened. Hell, even if you are found hanging in your room, an autopsy has to be done to ensure that you really did die of the hanging.
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - ramesh - 08-03-2014
There is always open hunting season of Niggas in New York city.
You just grab a gun and badge from the nearest police station
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - mapoui - 08-03-2014
[quote author=Prince link=topic=91636.msg578852#msg578852 date=1407016706]
Doubt he'll be convicted in New York.
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there is always a first. you might be sooprised this time
as long as the case stays in NYC any jury selected there may be able to consider that case evenly
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - wilf - 08-03-2014
Choked to death for selling untaxed cigarettes. You just can't make it up. Of course this was a HOMICIDE. Only the people who rush to the comment boards to attack Al Sharpton think otherwise. Sorry but Sharpton is not the story here...murder is. The poor guy was screaming ''I can't breathe, I can't breathe'' and I bet that stinking corrupt cop applied the chokehold even harder.
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - YardMan - 08-03-2014
The irony of this tragedy is that this PO has been re-assigned giving him the green light to do it all over again. he should loose his pension and banned from NYPD. Keep his life to pounder on his actions he violated. on the people he was supposed to protect. He will be the type of person who would run out of a man pointing a gun at him, but for a person selling loosies
Re: Eric Garner's Death By Police Chokehold Ruled A Homicide - 7643664 - 08-03-2014
A jury will acquit him, he'll sue the police force to get his job back despite having numerous complaints filed against him..its like one of the movies you know exactly how the end will be