NYPD Chokehold Cop Not Indicted in Death of Eric Garner

The New York Post
reports on the grand jury investigating whether New York Police
Department Office Daniel Pantaleo should be indicted in the July
death of Eric Garner:

A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop Wednesday in the
chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video
arrest for peddling loose cigarettes, The Post has learned.

The panel voted a “no-bill” and dismissed all potential charges
against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, sources said.

The blockbuster decision capped weeks of investigation by the
special grand jury, which was empaneled in September specifically
to review evidence in Garner’s racially charged death.

It was unclear exactly what charges prosecutors asked the grand
jury to consider filing, or how the vote went.

More.

Garner was being questioned about selling loose cigarettes
(“loosies”) in Staten Island.

Chokeholds such as the one seen in the image are prohibited in
the
NYPD’s rule book but are not technically illegal. While police
originally claimed that the 350-lb., 43-year-old Garner died of a
heart attack during the altercation,
a coroner ruled the death a homicide and said the chokehold and
other police actions were the cause.

Here is cell phone footage of the incident: