threshold and recklessness caused multilayered internal bruising and hemorrhaging that impaired his physical condition and caused substantial pain and a significant factor in triggering an asthma attack. for all these reasons taken together even after reviewing officer pantaleo s service record leading up to that day, the trial commissioner recommended that he be dismissed from the department. in making this penalty recommendation, she wrote, this tribunal recognizes that from the outside, outset, he was not compliant and argumentative and they allow officers to use force when necessary. what the patrol guide did not allow, however, even when this individual was resisting arrest, was the use of prohibited choke hold. as you know, a number of external authorities have asked many of the same questions we
mr. garner refused to provide identification. for several minutes on that widely viewed i have yoe, mr. garner makes it clear that he will not go willingly with the police officers. he refused to cooperate with the arrest and comply with lawful orders. the video makes clear that officer panteleo s efforts were correct. pa mr. pantaleo attempted to use handcuffs. he raised his hands while telling officers not to touch
proceedings. members of the public in general and mr. garner s family in particular have grown understandably impatient. the trial began on may 13th, 2019. july 16th, 2019, one day before the five-year statute of limitations expired, the justice department announced it would not file federal charges against officer pantaleo. then on august 2nd, 2019 with officer pantaleo s trial concluded, the trial commissioner ruled that officer pantaleo s use of a prohibited choke hold was reckless and constituted a grove deviation from the standard of conduct established for a new york city police officer. after noting that officer pantaleo admitted that choke holds are pro hiblted by the department, she further concluded with strongly worded and repeated warnings about the potential lethal effects of choke holds found throughout multiple sections of the training materials, it is evident that the department made
now? from day one we said that there was going to be a fair and impartial trial. this is the result. make no mistake about it, this is a tragedy for the garner family. i fully understand that. mr. garner was somebody s son, somebody s dad. everybody in the nypd understand that s. a couple questions. fir when is the determination effective? immediate. regarding the decision, is there anything in there you disagreed with? i agreed with the content of her decision. who didn t go yet? right here. yep? during the department s trial, a lot of the partner [ inaudible ] did any part of the other people who testify come you to saying they should be brought up on internal charges? right after this, joe s people from internal affairs looked at each officer that was involved in this.
and what do you see as commissioner that the officer on the screen might be upset with the decision doesn t see? so as i said, i went through the testimony. i looked at the video a number of times. i know what the definition of a choke hold is. this is what led me to this decision. and again, a difficult decision. new york city police commissioner explaining there. he said it was a painful decision built decision ultimately to fire, to determine nature officer pantaleo. he was the officer held accountable for the death of eric garner in a choke hold five years ago. this case dragged on for years because of justice department and other grand jury investigations, the police commissioner saying it was a painful decision. he determined that a police trial judge was correct in saying that officer pantaleo, yes, pult eric garner in a choke hold but had every opportunity to move to what the commissioner called less lethal alternatives