NYPD fires Daniel Pantaleo, the lying police officer who strangled Eric Garner to death
Daniel Pantaleo used fatal chokehold during the 2014 arrest of Eric Garner
Eric Garner's killer will not be charged
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday said they will not charge an N.Y.P.D. officer in the death of Eric Garner, whose final words, "I can't breathe," inspired national protests against the unpunished police killings of Black people in America. Read the rest
New York City's Right to Know Act requires cops to record people's explicit consent to warrantless stop-and-frisks
You could write books about the evils of "broken windows" policing and its handmaiden, stop-and-frisk searches (this is a rather good one, in fact), and few places have been more prolific in the racist pursuit of this policy than New York City, where walking-while-brown is a one-way ticket to being stopped, searched, even stripped, all without a warrant or any particularized suspicion. Read the rest
Eric Garner's daughter leads march through NYC to site of her father's killing by NYPD
One of the most inspiring figures at these recent protests is Erica Garner. Posted by Xeni Jardin.
