“Not a big deal … We were effecting a lawful arrest.”īannon testified at the judicial inquiry that the text was intended to give comfort to the officers who were at the scene, and who might be distraught. Christopher Bannon, a commander on Staten Island at the time of Garner’s death.Īt Pantaleo’s departmental disciplinary hearing, it was revealed that when Bannon had been notified by a sergeant that Garner had died during an arrest, he texted back. The proceeding before state Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards, which is happening virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, started with testimony from a police Lt. 2.īragg said at a virtual news conference Monday that the last time a proceeding took place under the charter provision was about 100 years ago. One of the lawyers representing the petitioners is Alvin Bragg, the widely favored Democratic candidate for Manhattan district attorney in an election now underway in the city. The judicial proceeding is taking place under a provision of the city charter that allows citizens to petition the court for a public inquiry into ″any alleged violation or neglect of duty in relation to the property, government or affairs of the city.″
New York City agreed to pay members of Garner’s family nearly $6 million in 2015 to resolve any civil litigation. Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who authorities said used a banned chokehold to restrain Garner, was fired five years later. Prosecutors at both the state and federal levels declined to charge any of the officers who were present when Garner lost consciousness as officers on Staten Island were arresting him, allegedly for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, and other activists sought the inquiry hoping it would create a measure of public accountability for his 2014 death. NEW YORK (AP) - A rare judicial inquiry began Monday into the death of Eric Garner, whose dying cry of “I can’t breathe” as he was restrained by New York City police officers became a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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