NYPD Commissioner Fires Officer in Eric Garner Chokehold Case
- Daniel Pantaleo had been a NYC police officer for 13 years
- The 5-year-old case has vexed de Blasio’s political standing
Former New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo
Photographer: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
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New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill fired a white police officer for the 2014 choking of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose death while under arrest helped ignite the national Black Lives Matter movement.
O’Neill acted Monday on the Aug. 2 recommendation of NYPD Administrative Law Judge Rosemary Maldonado, who had ruled that Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo, 34, had been untruthful when he denied using a prohibited chokehold to subdue Garner, 43, on a Staten Island sidewalk while arresting him for selling loose untaxed cigarettes.