Daniel Pantaleo: Police officer fired over chokehold death of Eric Garner
The New York Police Department has announced that Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer filmed choking Eric Garner to death in 2014, has been fired.
Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced the decision in a press conference on Monday. In a lengthy speech describing the actions that led to Mr Garner's death, which fuelled support for the Black Lives Matter movement as the video of Mr Garner being choked to death spread, Mr O'Neill said that he would be adhering to a previous recommendation from a departmental judge for Mr Pantaleo's firing.
Mr Pantaleo had previously been placed on desk duty after Mr Garner’s death, having held Mr Garner in a choke-hold as the African American father cried “I can’t breathe” eleven times before dying.
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