The Daily Beast: Five Years After Killing Eric Garner, NYPD Fires Officer Daniel Pantaleo
Garner’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe,’ became a rallying cry for justice in New York and across the country.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill expressed regret as he fired Daniel Pantaleo saying:
“It is unlikely that Mr. Garner thought he was in such poor health that a brief struggle with the police would cause his death. He should have decided against resisting arrest, but a man with a family lost his life. And that is an irreversible tragedy. And a hard-working police officer with a family and a man that took this job to do good, to make a difference in his home community has now lost his chosen career. And that is a different kind of tragedy.”
BREAKING: "The unintended consequence of Mr. Garner's death must have a consequence of its own."
NYPD officer involved in Eric Garner's death fired, NYPD commissioner announces: https://t.co/p5TX3vVZ3M pic.twitter.com/r6NMl9ny0Y
— ABC News (@ABC) August 19, 2019
