NYPD fires Officer Pantaleo 5 years after Eric Garner's death
by Mike Brest
| August 19, 2019 12:47 PM
| Updated Aug 19, 2019, 01:06 PM
New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced that the department has fired officer Daniel Pantaleo. The firing comes five years after he was responsible for the death of Eric Garner while trying to apprehend him.
In 2014, Pantaleo, 34, tried to apprehend Garner for allegedly selling "loose" cigarettes but the man refused. After a brief scuffle, the officer opted to put Garner in a chokehold, a move that has been prohibited by the police force since 1993.
Garner told the officers he couldn't breathe nearly a dozen times in a now-viral video but died nonetheless.
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