NYPD Says It Will Move Ahead With Disciplinary Trial Against Cop In Eric Garner Case
, the New York City Police Department is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to wrap up its investigation of the unarmed black man’s death. NYPD plans to pursue an internal disciplinary trial against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who put Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014, if the federal government does not announce it will file criminal charges against Pantaleo by Aug. 31, according to a Monday letter from NYPD lawyer Lawrence Byrne to the DOJ. “It has become clear that a definite date by which time a final decision by the U.S. DOJ ...
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