Eric Garner chokehold

NEW YORK (AP) — A sergeant has been stripped of her gun and badge and charged internally in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the first official accusation of wrongdoing in the case that helped spark a national movement on the role of race in policing. Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was one of the […]

The chance of Eric Garner’s daughter being accepted in to his family are slim to none, according to Garner’s widow. In an interview with the New York Daily News, Esaw Garner mentioned that although 16-month-old Legacy is her husband’s daughter with another woman, she wants nothing to do with the young girl or her mother, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A flashy attorney who once represented the family of a man killed in a police chokehold won’t face criminal charges after being accused of rape, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors decided no charges were warranted against Sanford Rubenstein, who denied the allegations that prompted him to step down from the chokehold case […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of Eric Garner says that from the beginning she’s had no faith in prosecutors on Staten Island, the borough where a police officer placed her unarmed husband in a chokehold that resulted in his death. Esaw Garner said in an interview Thursday on NBC’s “Today” ”there was no sincerity […]

Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, dismissed a report that officers gave her preferential treatment after an routine traffic stop. The NY Daily News reports: The mom of NYPD chokehold victim Eric Garner says the kind-hearted cops who fixed her broken car headlight were under no orders from police brass. Gwen Carr, speaking Saturday at […]