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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 […]

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  An NYPD internal report prepared after Eric Garner’s death fails to mention the chokehold used to subdue him and states that Garner was not in “great distress.” To view excerpts of the internal NYPD report visit the New York Daily News. Follow our continued coverage of the Eric Garner chokehold death incident on NewsOne.com.

Crime

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 […]

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Eric Garner, 43, was killed Thursday after being placed in an illegal chokehold by the NYPD and filmmaker Spike Lee has drawn a chilling comparison between Garner’s death and Radio Raheem’s death in “Do The Right Thing.” Read more from Shadow and Act: Director Spike Lee took the video of the incident, which went viral, […]

NewsOne Now

Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe after the move, banned by NYPD, was applied. Roland Martin talked with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rashad Robinson, Sherrilyn Ifill and Glenn […]

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Ad-hoc group “New Yorkers Against Bratton” held a press conference outside City Hall Monday, demanding that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton resign over Eric Garner‘s death due to his controversial Broken Windows theory. RELATED: Officer In Fatal NY Arrest Stripped Of Gun, Badge [VIDEO] “We’re out here today in response to the chokehold death of Staten […]

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Podcast: Download Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe after the move, banned by NYPD, was applied. Roland Martin talked with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rashad Robinson, Sherrilyn Ifill and Glenn Ivey about the controversy surrounding Garner’s death, […]

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Angry residents, politicians and activists rallied on Staten Island Saturday, protesting the death of local resident Eric Garner during an NYPD confrontation. RELATED: [VIDEO] NYPD Chokehold Kills Asthmatic Staten Island Man The group met outside the Tompkinsville shop where the altercation happened before marching to the nearby 120th police precinct, chanting, “Whose island? Our island!” […]

Cross Post Now, Nation

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, […]