Eric Garner tragedy brings back pain, loss for mother of another chokehold victim

That's what Eric Garner struggled to say as one New York Police Department officer held him by the neck from behind while others found the hands of the 43-year-old father of six, cuffing them behind his back. “I didn't do 

Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed a thorough investigation into the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died in NYPD custody.

Eric Garner, 43, repeatedly screamed after at least five NYPD officers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beauty supply store when he resisted being handcuffed. Within moments Garner, a married father of six children 

Garner died Thursday after police attempted to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes. The NYPD said Garner died of a heart attack, but video of the incident shows an officer putting him in a banned chokehold from behind and bringing him

This comes after a shocking new video shows Eric Garner, lying handcuffed and unresponsive on a sidewalk, received zero medical help from cops who instead just emptied his pockets. The seven-minute clip posted Saturday on YouTube shows an