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 […]
NYC #ShutItDown for Eric Garner! This Friday we show our resistance This Friday we show our power #NOJUSTICENOPEACE pic.twitter.com/Pn2kZacv1X — Millions March NYC (@MillionsMarch) July…
Rev. Al Sharpton talks about the $5.9M settlement that Eric Garner‘s family received in light of his infamous chokehold death. “Saturday marks the year later, we will be having a big rally in Brooklyn, NY. The struggle continues. We cannot equate money even in this amount, to death.” Click the link above to hear […]
How much is a life worth? The family of Eric Garner have said that no one can put a price on their loved one’s life. They’re right about that. But the family has come to an agreement with the City of New York as to how much money they will receive for a wrongful […]
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 […]
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) — An appeals court is revisiting the issue of whether the grand jury record in the Eric Garner chokehold death case should stay sealed. The three-judge panel is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday morning in Brooklyn. A judge on Staten Island had ruled in March that the records would remain under seal. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. House seat in deeply Democratic New York City will remain under Republican control. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan — who empaneled the grand jury that declined to indict a white police officer who placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold — on Tuesday captured […]
How much unrest will our country experience before we substantively address the injustices acutely impacting Black people? For months, across the nation, tens of thousands…
A woman’s First Amendment rights may have been violated last week when a U.S. Marshal allegedly destroyed her recording device while she was filming an arrest, the Huffington Post…
NewsOne reports that Ramsey Orta, the man who shot the footage of Eric Garner placed in a chokehold by cop Daniel Panatelo, is in fear of his…
In the midst of the truth-telling videos around police brutality and excessive force coming out lately, many are calling for the protection of those who…
