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Eric Garner

Latest news and comment on Eric Garner

September 2020

  • People gather at the Confederate Museum during a protest in Charleston, South Carolina on June 20, 2015.

    $240 for ‘The Breonna’: outrage as jewelry line uses names of police brutality victims

    Jewelry line shuts down after using protest debris to make pieces condemned for profiting from deaths of black people

June 2020

  • Ben Okri

    'I can't breathe': why George Floyd's words reverberate around the world

    Ben Okri
  • Protesters attend a demonstration demanding justice for the death of George Floyd in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    The Guardian view on the death of George Floyd: a turning point?

August 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: Protesters march and rally on the fifth anniversary of the death of Eric Garner in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: New York protesters march and rally on the fifth anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, a day after federal prosecutors announce their decision not to prosecute NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo or other officers for charges related to his death, in New York, U.S., July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy/File Photo

    Eric Garner's family receives sliver of justice after firing of NYPD officer

    Family of New York man insists ‘we’re not finished’ after dismissal of Daniel Pantaleo, who put Garner in a banned chokehold
  • FILE - In this May 13, 2019, file photo New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo leaves his house Monday, May 13, 2019, in Staten Island, N.Y. New York City’s police commissioner has scheduled a midday news conference as the city waits for his decision on whether to fire Pantaleo, a police officer involved in the 2014 death of an unarmed black man. Police commissioner James O’Neill said he would make an announcement at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, on an undisclosed topic. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

    'I can't breathe': NYPD fires officer who put Eric Garner in chokehold

    Daniel Pantaleo held Garner in chokehold before his death, and his words became rallying cry for Black Lives Matter movement
  • Daniel Pantaleo pictured in May this year.

    NYPD officer who put Eric Garner in chokehold should be fired, judge says

    Eric Garner died in July 2014 after being pulled to the ground by officer Daniel Pantaleo on Staten Island

16 July 2019

  • 'Today we can't breathe': Garner family react after prosecutors fail to charge NYPD officer – video

    An African American man called Eric Garner was killed five years ago by a white police officer using a banned chokehold technique, Garner repeated 11 times that he couldn't breathe

  • Black Lives Matter of Greater New York protest in support of an indictment for the death of Eric Garner<br>epa07719377 Hawk Newsome (C) of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York speaks a protest at the US Department of Justice building in support of an indictment for the death of Eric Garner in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2019. Eric Garner died 17 July 2014 during a confrontation with officers of the New York City Police Department. The group is calling for NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo to be charged in Garner’s death. The federal statute of limitation in the Garner case expires 17 July 2019. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

    The killer cop who took Eric Garner's life walks free. How do we secure justice?

    Derecka Purnell
    Here lies a painful truth: we can’t rely on the criminal justice system for black liberation. But we don’t need to, either
  • Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, wipes away tears after speaking to the press outside the US attorney's office in Brooklyn.

    Eric Garner: no charges against white police officer over chokehold death

    DoJ prosecutors decline to bring charges against NYPD’s Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Garner, 43, who died in 2014 after being put in a chokehold

June 2019

  • ***BESTPIX*** Mother Of Eric Garner Addresses The Media During Trial Of NYPD Officer Pantaleo<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 21: Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, joins others during a news conference outside of Police Headquarters in Manhattan to protest during the police disciplinary hearing for Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was accused of recklessly using a chokehold that led to Eric Garners death during an arrest in July 2014 on May 21, 2019 in New York City. Last week text messages between police officers revealed a response from Police Lt. Christopher Bannon stating that Garners death was Not a big deal. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    ‘It all takes a toll’: Eric Garner's family suffers indignities of trial process

    Five years on, after protests around the country and millions of dollars paid to the family, no one has been held liable for Garner’s death

May 2019

  • Trial of Daniel Pantaleo, New York, USA - 13 May 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by M Stan Reaves/REX/Shutterstock (10236387s) Protesters at One Police Plaza Trial of Daniel Pantaleo, New York, USA - 13 May 2019 Protesters staged a demonstration at One Police Plaza today as the trial gets underway against NYPD officer Daniel Panaleo in relation to the death of Eric Garner in 2014

    NYPD lieutenant texted ‘not a big deal’ after being told of Eric Garner’s death

  • US-police-minorities-racism-trial<br>Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, speaks to the press outside the police headquarters as a disciplinary hearing takes place for officer Daniel Pantaleo on May 13, 2019 in New York City. - Pantaleo faces charges of reckless use of a chokehold and intentional restriction of breathing, on the Eric Garner death case. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP)KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images

    Five years on, New York officer who put Eric Garner in chokehold faces trial

July 2018

  • Gwen Carr, whose son Eric Garner was killed by an NYPD officer, is surrounded by supporters as she speak during a news conference outside City Hall, Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in New YorThe New York Police Department announced on Monday, July 16, that it will allow disciplinary proceedings to go forward against a patrolman accused in the notorious chokehold death of Garber, of an unarmed black man, saying it’s run out of patience with federal authorities’ indecision about whether to bring a criminal case.k. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    'This is your last chance for justice': Eric Garner's family wants NYPD officers fired

  • A protestor attends a rally outside the Barclays Center against a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Britain’s Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, not pictured, attended a NBA basketball game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    NYPD to start disciplinary proceedings against officer in Eric Garner case

December 2017

  • Erica Garner photographed in NYC for the Observer 1/19/15 Erica Garner-Snipes daughter of Eric Garner

    Erica Garner, Black Lives Matter activist, dies aged 27

  • Erica Garner photographed in NYC for the Observer 1/19/15 Erica Garner-Snipes daughter of Eric Garner

    Erica Garner suffering from 'major brain damage' after cardiac arrest

January 2017

  • during a demonstration in Oakland, California following the grand jury decision in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri<br>A demonstrator sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, in Oakland, California November 25, 2014. The grand jury decided on Monday not to indict a white police officer over the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teenager. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

    The long read
    Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement

    The long read: The killing of Michael Brown created a new generation of black activists, with thousands taking to the streets, and a hashtag used more than 27m times. But will the movement survive the Trump era?

November 2016

  • Mothers of the Movement … Geneva Reed-Veal, Sybrina Fulton, Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, pictured at the Oxford Union.

    'We know what it is to bury a child' – the black mothers turning mourning into a movement

    Parents of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell have been united by the deaths of their children. Here, they speak of their loss, the fight for black lives and their fears for Trump’s America

August 2016

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July 2016

  • Steven W Thrasher

    Obama condemns Baton Rouge, but what about the victims of police violence?

    Steven W Thrasher
    The president eulogises slain officers, but not those killed by police. He needs to address the key issue – the systematic killing of black people
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