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NEW YORK — A historic judicial inquiry into the city’s handling of Eric Garner’s death from a New York Police Department officer putting him in a banned chokehold began Monday
De Blasio won’t commit to testifying in possible Garner inquiry Updated Apr 22, 2021; Posted Apr 22, 2021 A still from a YouTube video shows Eric Garner being taken to the ground by Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Bill de Blasio did not commit Wednesday to testify for an inquiry into one of the city’s most high-profile police killings — the 2014 death of Eric Garner in Tompkinsville. That’s despite his vocal support for police reform this week in the aftermath of the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin f...