NYPD cop who choked Eric Garner lied about it to investigators, says judge

A judge says that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for his reckless use of a banned chokehold—and for lying about it after his victim Eric Garner, an unarmed black man selling cigarettes on the street, died.

The judge, Rosemarie Maldonado, who has recommended that Officer Pantaleo be fired, concluded that he had been untruthful during the interview, according to the opinion that grew out of a departmental trial that ended in June.

A final decision about Officer Pantaleos fate rests with the police commissioner, and will come five years after the death of Mr. Garner who uttered I cant breathe 11 times first galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement

Pictured here is Eric with his family. Read the rest