New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired, five years after he was filmed putting his arms around Eric Garner’s neck while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. Garner, who was asthmatic, said he couldn’t breathe 11 times as officers dropped him to the ground. He was taken to a nearby hospital and began having a heart attack. He died an hour later.
In July the Department of Justice declined to file federal civil rights charges against Pantaleo for his role in Garner’s death. In August 2014, a Grand Jury declined to indict Pantaleo, but four Emergency Medical Technicians and paramedics who worked on Garner were suspended for their role in his death. They were later reinstated. Nearly a year after Garner’s death, New York City settled a civil lawsuit brought by his family for $5.9 million.
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