As CBS 2's Lou Young reported, 43-year-old Eric Garner died last Thursday after an arrest in which he was put in a choke hold by an officer. Officials said Sunday that two EMTs and two paramedics were placed on “modified
The F.B.I. is now actively monitoring the circumstances surrounding the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner, The Wire has learned. Garner died Thursday after New York City police tried to arrest him for selling individual cigarettes, something that is
The recent death of Eric Garner, while in police custody, horrified and angered me. A video shows that police placed Garner in a choke hold, a tactic prohibited by NYPD policy. And a second video shows that police failed to offer any medical assistance
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton has ordered a thorough review of the NYPD's training procedures in the aftermath of the death of Eric Garner, the man who was held in an apparent chokehold and died as
Police suspected that man, Eric Garner, was selling untaxed, loose cigarettes. Garner, an asthmatic Staten Island man who was married with six children, died. Pantaleo is on desk duty, with his badge and gun taken away.