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Protesters in New York in December, 2014, after a grand jury elected not to indict officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner Seven years ago this past weekend, on July 17, 2014, a Staten Island man named Eric Garner was killed by police in a gruesome scene that went viral and helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement. Press reports usually say Garner was stopped on suspicion of selling cigarettes by plainclothes officers who then choked him to death, but the story I wrote about in
I Can t Breathe was both stupider and more tragic than that. Garner s death was a confluence of a hundred terrible developments, but above all a grotesque governance failure. It was a classic example of how even the most harmless-sounding ideas can, in the hands of the wrong people, become deadly policy.
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Know your candidates: Michael Schnall focused on quality of life with experience at City Hall
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Michael Schnall, a candidate for the North Shore s City Council seat, poses for a photo. (Courtesy: Schnall campaign/Karen O’Donnell Photography)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Michael Schnall grew up on Staten Island, and wants to be the North Shore’s next City Council member.
Schnall has experience in government as a Parks Department staffer under the mayoral administrations of Mike Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio and a financial analyst for the City Council in the early aughts. He now works for a large non-profit organization.
The Old Guy: Does my Stapleton community have a target on its back?
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By Gary Moore | For the Staten Island Advance
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned about all the shootings in Stapleton and in the Tompkinsville Park area in recent months.
One man died after being shot, and then crashing his car a mile away on Van Duzer Street. Luckily, his assailant was later apprehended. One woman was shot in the foot. A young man trying to get his life back together was shot to death. Some guy tried to rob a local T-Mobile store, then fled.
Mother of Eric Garner’s youngest daughter pushes to rename Tompkinsville Park in his honor: ‘We need healing’
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
Jewel Miller, in blue, her daughter, Legacy (middle), and her daughter s two friends, Souel (left) and Ria (right). (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Nearly seven years after Eric Garner was killed in police custody just steps away from Tompkinsville Park, Jewel Miller, the mother of Garner’s youngest child, is continuing a push to have the space renamed in his honor.
Miller gathered signatures from Staten Islanders around the park Thursday afternoon with her daughter, Legacy, who is now seven-years-old.