Course Eric Garner News Today

We have already heard from eric garners family. they have spent the last five years demanding justice for his death. only to see the federal government and the staten island jury decline to indict officer pantaleo. this was the family just moments ago. >> eric garner was killed five years ago. it took five years for the officer to be fired. i dont want another eric garner. i will do everything in my power to never see another eric garner. i dont want to see another video of a person being choked...

Death. and the opinion that was released today the administrative law judge found that officer pantaleo lied when he claimed he had not used a choke hold and that in fact his conduct was reckless. it was a gross deviation from what a police officer is supposed to do. chris, i dont think anybody should be satisfied when five years later a homicidal cop who choked a man to death is told he can no longer be a police officer. thats what is supposed to pass for justice? for people of color. and its i...

Himself, but there was a process. there was a trial, a hearing, it lasted for a couple of weeks. there was witnesses, testimony, evidence comprehended and a judge who was a police commissioner went through all of that and decided that in fact officer pantaleo had violated the department policy. had for a brief moment or so -- did in fact have eric garner in a choke hold which is a banned practice by the police department. and for that reason, he should be fired. he should be dismissed. now, agai...

Be used in vain, we have to do a complete overhaul of the accountability mechanisms that mediate the relationships between police and communities that theyre supposed to serve. >> paul, you literally wrote the book on choke holds and pantaleo had tried to argue that what he did was not a choke hold and we know that the administrative judge thought about that. one of the things that came up at the garner family press conference reverend al said we need to make choke holds illegal. this cant be a ...

The police. i agree that there are no winners here. this family continues to grieve, this family just continues to suffer incredible losses. not just with their father, but of course eric garner who literally died of a broken heart fighting on behalf of her family and for the legacy and memory of her father. so, yes, it ask a step forward and an important one because it signals as other cases have that when police do things that are wrong that they must be held accountable. its important for us ...

And the video that turned the words i cant breathe into a national rallying cry, the nypd fired the officer involved in garners death. officer daniel pantaleo held garner in a prohibited choke hold for selling loose cigarettes in 2014. this follows the recommendation from the police administrative judge who found him guilty of reckless assault but the ultimate decision made by the police commissioner who said hes personally debated it since he took over the reins of the nypd. >> every time i wat...

Unrolled in secret. by the way, something that no one has mentioned yet thats important to note at the beginning of 2015, shortly after eric garners tragic death an internal affairs suggested that pantaleo should be brought up on disciplinary charges and the department declined to so and then they waited four years. she actually had to find in the decision in order to recommend firing that not only had the officer broken the rules, but that he had done so at a level of criminal culpability. so t...

Director to be the prosecutor if and when this case went before the deputy commissioner of trial at the nypd. so that was an effort to bring an outsider into the ccrb, into the process to bring more transparency and also try to allay some of the community concerns that this issue was not going to be addressed -- >> all right. we are out of time as you can see. but thank you to all of you for joining us. and ron allen, who is at the court -- at the police station for us at one police plaza. >> ju...

Any time you do something wrong, that there must be consequences and they must apply equally to police and to citizens. one last thing that i want to make sure that were talking about here is that, you know, for black families across the country, the killing of a family member by the police is a concern that keeps them up at night. there are too many black families out here in the world today and in this country who are having conversations with their children about what to do if they are stoppe...

As you heard has just been agonizing, there would be accountability, someone would be blamed or held responsible for this death other than garner himself. so today theres perhaps some small measure of justice. theyre obviously not satisfied. you heard from garners family. they want more. they wanted the officer prosecuted. they want the case reopened but at least we have gotten to this point now where theres a decision about the officer. he loses his job. he can appeal, another complicated proce...