NYPD officer faces May trial in Eric Garner death
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(6 Dec 2018) A New York City police officer accused in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man will face a disciplinary trial in May. An administrative judge set Daniel Pantaleo's trial date Thursday. Pantaleo has been on desk duty since Eric Garner's July 2014 death on Staten Island. Garner's mother says he and other officers involved should be fired. "I felt sort of numb being in the same space with my son's murderer," said Gwen Carr, Eric Garner's mother outside New York City police headquarters on Thursday. Carr was joined by civil rights activist Al Sharpton during the hearing, where the family argued the diciplinary trial should be moved from July to an earlier date. "We would have liked to seen it much earlier, but I am just glad that this is moving forward," Carr said. Pantaleo appears on a cellphone video appearing to use a type of chokehold that is banned under NYPD policy. Garner's pleas of "I can't breathe" became a rallying cry against police brutality. An attorney for Pantaleo, as well as the president of the NYPD's labor union said after Thursday's hearing that they will pesent medical evidence showing Garner was not in a chokehold when he died. A watchdog agency called the Civilian Complaint Review Board is prosecuting Pantaleo, who says he expects to be vindicated. The police department had been waiting to see whether federal prosecutors would bring criminal charges but decided to move forward. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2bd6a1c7bea572685af5dffbf4699e8d
