NEW YORK — James P. O’Neill, the New York City police commissioner, could have dispensed with a decision five years in the making with a terse official statement. But in firing the police officer ...
The NYPD officer who used a banned chokehold that led to the death of Eric Garner was fired Monday, five years after Garner’s final words — “I can’t breathe” — fueled the nationwide #BlackLivesMatter ...
NEW YORK — Five years after Eric Garner died in police custody and ignited a national outcry, a police administrative judge recommended Friday that the officer who placed him in a chokehold during the ...