The NYPD officer who used an illegal chokehold that led to Eric Garner's death five years ago was fired from the NYPD. Lawrence O’Donnell explains how the NYPD commissioner came to that decision.
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NYPD Officer In Eric Garner Case Is Fired | The Last Word | MSNBC
Did he say he would have ‘made similar mistakes’? Killing that man was murder, not a mistake.
Being fired isn’t enouģh.
You literally had video of the cop murdering Mr Garner and it took 5 years ….. just to fire him.
Pathetic.
Ro G
It’s truly mind boggling.
yeap thats justice i am lucky that i am not an american and that i am not black poor country
Keep kneeling.
I doubt that he will ever hold any kind of job again. For sure he is not getting to be a school guard.
Maybe he’ll fabricate lies for msnbc serpent nest
WRONG.
because he has not been charged OR convicted of a crime, he just moves to the next town/county and gets hired by the white supremacist police of that area.
unless he loses his peacekeeper license he can go anywhere and work, a quick name change and he Mr Fred Nobody is a new person on paper.
@Amanda Gardner
Na… Tell us about the day you lost your soul to the demon.
I can breathe because I live in the civilized of human rights not USA.
Fired & no charges great justice system we have.
Plus paid leave for 5 years 👍💩🇺🇸
Can they bring a civil case against him?
Wrongful death would seem likely. Payment courtesy of the taxpayer ( as always )
They already did and accepted an amount. Cheers from Toronto
So, all this time he was on the payroll?🤣 it pays to misuse deadly force
Well he doesn’t get his pension.
Lets not forget Garner was breaking up a fight.
A firing isn’t justice. They harassed him prior to and the reason for his detainment was not just. The procedures for cuffing someone for detainment needs to change. It is unproven they’ve committed any crime and the current standard for detainment is assault and battery by police. 4-5 guys strangling and grabbing at the limbs of another man is assault and when it results in a death, all of them should face manslaughter because all it would have taken was for 1 of them to say “guys stop it, let’s deescalate the situation” and noone did. They’re forced to double triple down to make it seem the individual did some thing wrong when in fact sometimes they didn’t
This officer should be going to jail, any wonder others feel free to unleash unnecessary violence even to the extent of murder. Not to have him face justice also taints the good cops with his dirty racist brush… 🤢
If there was any wrongdoing at all, then Eric Garner was unlawfully killed. He gets fired for that?
IF?…IF? I’m all for giving the benefit of the doubt, Mike, especially when it comes to cops dealing with situations most of us couldn’t cope with. But this practice was specifically BANNED by the NYPD because it killed people, and the officer knew it.
o’neill you would have let the corrupt murdering cop go free ,, only for a court judgement he is fired and not charged with murder ,, investigation is needed in the NYPD
I used to read a comic, featuring Judge Dredd; a street cop, with the power to police, sentence, and carry out sentencing; right, wrong, or indifferent. A COMIC! Meant to be SATIRE! . . . Smh
James O’Neill should be fired on the spot for stating Eric Garner didn’t comply with a bunch of murderous cops attacking him.
He should have complied before the cops had to take him down, blame the police, makes it easier for them to commit crimes and complain about their treatment by police.
Fired? He should be in jail!
There is something fundamentally wrong with the recruitment, training and culture of the police in the US. We see it time and time again. You have only to look at the methods of Police forces in the UK, Scandinavia, Japan and elsewhere to see how it should be done.
I like Castro- straightforward and to the point- not so much Gillibrand or Harris.
“I can’t breathe”- and neither can we when no justice exists in this country. Pantelleio, Trump, Epstein, a thousand others all belong in prison.