Unedited Video of Eric Garner’s Last Moments Released

On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner was choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island, New York City. Now nearly a full year later the unedited video of the callous murder has been obtained and released by the New York Daily News.
NYPD officers approached Garner on suspicion of selling “loosies” (single cigarettes). Garner told the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not selling cigarettes. Garner was unarmed and not posing a threat to the officers.

When the officers went to arrest Garner he put his hands in the air the moment before Pantaleo jumped on Mr. Garners back and choked him to the ground. While being choked with several officers on top of him Eric Garner repeated “I can’t breathe” eleven times.
On December 3, 2014, a grand jury decided not to indict Mr. Garner’s murderer Daniel Pantaleo sparking 100’s of demonstrations calling for justice and against the continued cycle of police brutality on people of color nationwide.
Garner, who was married to Esaw Garner, had been described by his friends as a “neighborhood peacemaker” and as a generous, congenial person. Garner was the father of six children and three grandchildren; and at the time of his death had a 3-month-old child.
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