Daniel Pantaleo, the fired NYPD cop who used an illegal chokehold on Eric Garner before the unarmed Black man died, has had his desperate appeal to win his job back denied.
Daniel Pantaleo was fired five years after killing Eric Garner.
A New York Police Department officer thought it was funny to mock a man while watching his dying moments.
Civil rights lawyers said the coincidentally timed collision of the NYPD firing Eric Garner's killer with Jay-Z's social justice partnership with the NFL combined a begrudging chorus of "what took so long?" with the realization that while some semblance of justice had been established, it was still largely elusive.
Kizzy Adonis was standing in the background on the video of Eric Garner being killed.
Refusing to say if the cop who killed Eric Garner should be fired clearly will not help Bill de Blasio with Black voters in his run for president.
In the first Democratic debate, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio avoided scrutiny for his [mis]handling of Eric Garner's killing by the NYPD. He wasn't so lucky the second time around.
