NYPD Fires Officer Implicated in Eric Garner Death

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Gwen Carr, left, mother of chokehold victim Eric Garner, joins a "young people" rally in Federal Plaza to protest the decision by federal prosecutors not to bring civil rights charges against New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, Wednesday July 17, 2019, in New York. The protest marks the five-year anniversary of Garner's killing. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Gwen Carr, left, mother of chokehold victim Eric Garner, joins a “young people” rally in Federal Plaza to protest the decision by federal prosecutors not to bring civil rights charges against New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, Wednesday July 17, 2019, in New York. The protest marks the five-year anniversary of Garner’s killing. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who administered the fatal choke hold on Eric Garner, has been fired from the NYPD.  The question is, is this justice for Garner’s death after the Department of Justice failed to indict the officer.

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