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- Fired New York police officer implicated in death of Eric Garner sues to get job back at department
The NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner (a suspect accused of selling loose cigarettes) with a chokehold in 2014 and was later fired for lying about the incident has filed a lawsuit in hopes of being re-hired.Oct 24, 2019 04:37USA News - Texas cop charged with murder after shooting a woman playing video games with child in her own homeA Texas police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a window of her own home while she was playing video games with her nephew has been arrested and charged with murder, the Fort Worth interim police chief has said.Oct 14, 2019 22:21USA News
- NYPD officer fired for death of Eric Garner after ‘implausible & self-serving’ accountThe New York Police Department has fired the officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man killed during arrest over the “selling of loose cigarettes,” after the officer’s account of events was questioned.Aug 19, 2019 21:13USA News
- ‘Fire Pantaleo!’ chants disrupt Dem debate as protesters demand killer cop's dismissalA group of protesters lent some spectacle to Wednesday's CNN-hosted Democratic debate, as a group of activists cut in with chants against the police officer implicated in the 2014 death of Eric Garner.Aug 1, 2019 04:03USA News
- #RespectThePolice order backfires after cathartic VIDEOS of soaked cops go viralViral videos showing New York police getting doused in water have prompted an investigation - and a flood of derisive tweets after authorities' plea to "respect the police" appeared to add insult to years of police-abuse injury.Jul 24, 2019 01:29USA News
- NYPD cop who used chokehold on Eric Garner ‘won’t be charged’ as case times outThe NYPD officer who put an unarmed African-American man Eric Garner in a chokehold, contributing to his death, won’t be charged with any crime, an AP report said. Garner’s case galvanized the Black Lives Matter protest movement.Jul 16, 2019 18:07USA News
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