The City of New York has agreed to pay the family of Eric Garner $5.9 million to settle a claim over his killing in New York City's Staten Island borough one year ago on Friday.
A New York medical examiner has concluded what many suspected after watching video of Eric Garner’s fatal police encounter: The Staten Island man died as the result of an illegal police chokehold. NBC’s New York affiliate has the story: The city medical examiner has ruled the death of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father whose death in police […]
News of the fatal police encounter that led to Eric Garner’s death went viral with help of a video recording. That video was taken by Ramsey Orta, a Staten Island man and friend of Garner’s. In a brand new interview, Orta says he and Garner were deciding where to eat dinner when a fight broke out nearby. Garner successfully helped break […]
It’s a scene from an effed-up horror movie that plays out over and over in America, each year with the same tragic ending: a Black man is left lifeless on the concrete following a run-in with police. This latest victim is Eric Garner, an affable, asthmatic father of six from Staten Island. The cops moved […]
Emotions are running high over the case of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died last week while under the restraint of NYPD officers. Social media activist have mobilized under the #JusticeForEricGarner hashtag. There is, however, another community online expressing their feelings about the case: police, and what many have to say is chilling. NYmag.com […]
A Staten Island man died Thursday after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold. The incident was captured on video by a bystander and obtained by the The New York Daily News. WATCH VIDEO of the incident via The New York Daily News. Warning: the video is graphic and quite disturbing. You can hear Eric Garner, […]
