NYPD Board Interviews Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death: Attorney

nbc ny ^ | 12-10-2014 | Andrew Siff

[Citizen Zed]

The police officer cleared by a Staten Island grand jury in the chokehold death of Eric Garner has been questioned by the NYPD bureau investigating whether department policy was violated in the case, the officer's attorney said.

Internal Affairs Bureau investigators questioned officer Daniel Pantaleo about Garner's death for about two hours Tuesday, his attorney Stuart London told NBC 4 New York.

The interview comes one week after a grand jury decided not to indict the officer on criminal charges in Garner's death. The deliberative body delivered a vote of "no true bill," which determined there was not probable cause that a crime of criminally negligent homicide or manslaughter -- the two charges NBC 4 New York was told the jury was given to consider -- was committed by Pantaleo.

The officer was seen on widely watched amateur video wrapping his arm around Garner's neck as the heavyset, asthmatic 43-year-old yelled, "I can't breathe!", nearly a dozen times while gasping for air during the July 17 confrontation in Tompkinsville.

The decision outraged many across the country, as thousands of protesters took to the street in New York City and elsewhere chanting Garner's last words, picketing on busy streets and staging "die-ins" in stores and transit hubs. Protesters are planning to march to One Police Plaza Wednesday to mark the one-week anniversary of the grand jury decision.

[Citizen Zed]

I thought the new subject de jour was the torture of terrorists. Well at least we've got Holder to keep our civil society hugging in harmony. /s

[Responsibility2nd]

“Chokehold Death”

~Drink~

Is that like the “Hands up Don’t Shoot” lie from Ferguson?

Why yes. Yes it is.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Did they also interview the black female sergeant who was supervising the arrest and could have stopped it at any time?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Maybe New Yorkers should stop electing liberals into office who demand cops act like Gestapo when it comes to cigarette taxes. The guy sells one cigarette and they got 4 cops pouncing on him like he's serial killer.

This is especially galling, the NYC city council out protesting the very thing they support.........

City Council Members Block Traffic to Protest Eric Garner Decision

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Looks like a head-lock, not a choke hold. At least to me.

[circlecity]

"Looks like a head-lock, not a choke hold. At least to me."

Looks like a poorly performed blood choke to me.

[Cowboy Bob]

Doesn’t “heavyset” really mean obese?

[Kackikat]

I think it means a little on the smaller size of obese, then obese, and then gigantic....I don’t know what comes after that.

[Veggie Todd]

Did they also interview the black female sergeant who was supervising the arrest and could have stopped it at any time?

Shhhh....don't interrupt the narrative.