Eric Garner chokehold murder

Although he knows he did the right thing, Ramsey Orta views filming the death of Eric Garner as something he regrets. Orta shared his reasons for his regrets during an interview with Time magazine, saying that life has drastically changed for him and his family since that fateful day in July 2014 when he captured […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The relatives of an unarmed black man who died after being put in a white police officer’s chokehold said Tuesday that the nearly $6 million settlement they reached with the city wasn’t a victory as they continued pressing for federal civil rights charges. “The victory will come when we get justice,” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white police officer’s chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death. Eric Garner’s family in October filed a notice of claim, the first step in filing a lawsuit […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed New York City man, a state judge must decide whether to disclose details of the secret proceedings. The New York Civil Liberties Union and other petitioners have gone to court on Staten Island […]

Erica Garner revealed the memorial tribute for her father was burned down on Martin Luther King Jr Day. Erica’s father Eric was killed in Staten…

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — His eyes filling with tears, Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins spoke passionately about a decision he knew would bring backlash and possibly harm his reputation. For Hawkins, there was no choice. A day after he wore a T-shirt protesting two shootings in Ohio involving police and victims carrying fake guns, Hawkins […]

Rapper Jay-Z is urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reshape New York state’s current justice system in the wake of nationwide protests of unarmed…

It was an absurd notion all along that President Barack Obama, as the nation’s first black president, could somehow miraculously suppress racism in America simply by using his White House bully pulpit. In an interview with BET Monday night, it was important to hear Obama put racism into its proper historical context as racial tension […]

Like many people, Spike Lee is wondering exactly what prompted the Staten Island grand jury to not indict New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the homicide of Eric Garner. The filmmaker weighed in on the situation Wednesday night during an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” In his eyes, the hope for improved relations […]

  In he wake of the Eric Garner decision, which follows on the heels of the Michael Brown decision, CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin, a former assistant United States attorney is having trouble reconciling the facts in the Garner case with the news that no indictment will happen. Officer Daniel Panteleo has expressed his remorse (unlike […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, triggering protests in the streets by thousands  of New Yorkers who likened the case to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Protest in Philadelphia and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney accused of raping a woman will no longer represent the family of a man who died after being placed in a police chokehold. Attorney Sanford Rubenstein’s law partner announced Wednesday that Rubenstein doesn’t want the woman’s claims to distract from the Eric Garner case. Rubenstein, who hasn’t been arrested […]