Police officer in ‘I can’t breathe’ death won’t be charged
July 16, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — After years of silence, federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won't bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words — "I can't breathe" — became a national rallying cry against police brutality...
Mamie Till depiction seen as tribute to Black female leaders
October 15, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Gwen Carr sat up straight in her seat as she heard lines of dialogue delivered by the actor portraying Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S.
NYC to pay $7M to man wrongfully convicted in 1996 killing
May 23, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, Comptroller Brad Lander said Monday.
Grant Williams was exonerated last July in the 1996 shooting of Shdell Lewis outside a Staten Island public housing complex.
Police stops of Black people often filled with fear, anxiety
April 16, 2022 GMTThe video seems clear: Patrick Lyoya disobeyed an officer during a traffic stop, tried to run, then wrestled with the officer over his Taser before the officer fatally shot him in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Trayvon Martin 10th anniversary: A look at the players
February 24, 2022 GMTORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Trayvon Martin was visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, when the 17-year-old Black teen was fatally shot Feb. 26, 2012, during a confrontation with George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.
A look at high-profile killings by US police
February 17, 2022 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota police Officer Kim Potter faces sentencing Friday for manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of Daunte Wright.
A look at high-profile cases over killings by US police
December 23, 2021 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for a Taser was led away in handcuffs Thursday after a jury found her guilty of manslaughter in the death of Black motorist Daunte Wright.
He’s running for DA, challenging the NYPD and the status quo
October 26, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Days before the final votes are cast in an election likely to make him Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg is showing just how different a prosecutor he might be.
‘I can’t breathe’: Public inquiry into Garner’s death begins
October 25, 2021 GMTNEW 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.
Judge: NYC mayor won’t testify in Eric Garner inquiry
July 23, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t have to testify in a judicial inquiry into the 2014 police chokehold death of Eric Garner, a judge ruled Friday, dashing a long-running quest by Garner’s relatives to have the mayor questioned under oath.
Eric Garner remembered on 7th anniversary of his death
July 17, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Family and community members gathered in New York City on Saturday to remember Eric Garner on the seventh anniversary of his death in a police chokehold.
Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, gathered with others in Staten Island just a few hundred feet from where her son lost his life, the Staten Island Advance reported.
NY appeals court backs inquiry of Garner chokehold death
July 15, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that a judicial inquiry is warranted into the investigation of Eric Garner’s 2014 police chokehold death, denying the city’s push to cancel the proceeding.
A look at high-profile cases over killings by US police
June 24, 2021 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin faces decades in prison when he is sentenced Friday in George Floyd's death.
Families urge legal changes to prevent more police killings
May 25, 2021 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Parents and siblings of Black men killed by police urged people during a discussion in the city where George Floyd was killed a year ago to join them in pursuing legal changes they say can make similar deaths less likely in the future.
Floyd legislation reveals divide in police-reform movement
May 22, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named Amadou Diallo in the Bronx.
In the two decades since, she repeatedly witnessed police reforms that failed to stop Black people from dying at the hands of officers.
Families of Black men slain by police are hopeful for reform
April 30, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The family and representatives of Black men slain by the police met with senators and White House officials Thursday — and left optimistic that police reform could be approved by May 25, the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis...
Lawrence Byrne, NYPD’s policy-shaping legal czar, dies at 61
December 8, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Lawrence Byrne, the New York Police Department’s top lawyer during a fraught period that followed a court ban on officers frisking people without cause, the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the revelation that police spied on law-abiding Muslims after 9/11, has died...
Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ on National Book Awards longlist
September 17, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson's “Caste,” her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction...
NYPD to adopt guidelines for disciplining officer misconduct
August 31, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When the New York Police Department fired an officer last year for putting Eric Garner in a deadly chokehold, the officer's union argued that there was little, if any, precedent within the department's internal disciplinary system for such a penalty...
Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace
August 26, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton sat quietly in his office in late July, watching the final funeral service for Rep...
NYPD chief, protesters roughed up in Brooklyn Bridge clash
July 15, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Several New York City police officers were attacked and injured Wednesday as pro-police and anti-police protesters clashed on the Brooklyn Bridge, police said...
Crowds mourn Rayshard Brooks at storied Atlanta church
June 23, 2020 GMTATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev...
NYPD closes plainclothes anti-crime unit in nod to reform
June 15, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City's police department is disbanding the type of plainclothes anti-crime units that were involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner and have long been criticized for aggressive tactics, Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday...
Streaming revolution: Protesters make point with viral clips
June 15, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of protesters marched up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue last week, their signs and chants demanding police reform captured from within their ranks by dozens of camera phones...
New York governor signs police accountability legislation
June 13, 2020 GMTALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law on Friday a sweeping package of police accountability measures that received new backing following protests over George Floyd's killing, including one allowing the release of officers' long-withheld disciplinary records...
Police disciplinary records are largely kept secret in US
June 12, 2020 GMTPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officer Derek Chauvin had more than a dozen misconduct complaints against him before he put his knee on George Floyd's neck...
Floyd’s death spurs question: What is a black life worth?
June 12, 2020 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For 12-year-old Tamir Rice, it was simply carrying a toy handgun. For Eric Garner, it was allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes...
Thousands mourn George Floyd in Texas amid calls for reform
June 9, 2020 GMTHOUSTON (AP) — The last chance for the public to say goodbye to George Floyd drew thousands of mourners Monday to a church in Houston where he grew up, as his death two weeks ago continues to stoke protests in America and beyond over racial injustice, and spurred France to abruptly halt the use of police choke holds...
US Legislatures slow to pass laws limiting use of force
June 3, 2020 GMTCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
A wave of police killings of young black men in 2014 prompted 24 states to quickly pass some type of law enforcement reform, but many declined to address the most glaring issue: police use of force...
One face in the crowd: A protester haunted by the dead
June 3, 2020 GMTLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — She couldn’t eat and she couldn’t sleep, jolting awake an hour after going to bed...
Pelosi urges Trump to be ‘healer in chief’ as protests rage
June 3, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged President Donald Trump to be a “healer in chief” while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged “racism in America” as the wrenching debate fueling protests over the treatment of black people in the United States arrived in Congress.
Spike Lee on what’s different about these protests
June 1, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — It's not the first time that Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee's 1989 film has again found blistering relevance in the wake of George Floyd's death...
‘I can’t breathe’ a rally cry anew for police protests in US
May 30, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — “I can’t breathe.”
Eric Garner uttered those words six years ago, locked in a police chokehold...
Four Minneapolis officers fired after death of black man
May 27, 2020 GMTMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a NEW YORK (AP) — Video showing New York City police officers arresting a young black man sparked outrage and elicited questions about the amount of force used to make the arrest in a city where mistrust of police remains high more than five years after Eric Garner's death from an officer's chokehold...Video of black man’s arrest spurs outrage, NYPD probe
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Police union wants mayor, commish out over Garner firing
August 28, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — New York City's largest police union says the mayor and police commissioner should lose their jobs over the firing last week of an officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner...
Where Garner died, changes in policing win little applause
August 22, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A police cruiser constantly sits a few feet from a small floral memorial to Eric Garner on the Staten Island sidewalk where he spent his dying moments five years ago...
Police supervisor to lose vacation days over Garner death
August 21, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A police sergeant accused of failing to properly supervise officers involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner has agreed to give up about four weeks of vacation time to settle her internal disciplinary case, a police official said Wednesday...
The Latest: Mayor says justice served in firing of officer
August 20, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Eric Garner case (all times local):
NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner’s chokehold death
August 19, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dying gasps of "I can't breathe" gave voice to a national debate over race and police use of force...
The Latest: Officer’s lawyer: He’ll fight to keep his job
August 2, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on an administrative judge's recommendation in the Eric Garner case (all times local):...
The Latest: Officer in chokehold death case is ‘gratified’
July 17, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the decision not to bring civil rights charges in the death of Eric Garner (all times local):...
Cases in which police officers were charged in deaths
July 16, 2019 GMTFederal prosecutors said they aren't bringing criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words — "I can't breathe" — became a rallying cry for those protesting how police treat black suspects...
NYPD training official: Garner officer used banned chokehold
May 15, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department official in charge of training recruits said Tuesday that the restraint technique an officer used on Eric Garner five years ago, leading to his death, "meets the definition" of a chokehold, a practice banned since the 1990s because of its potential for lethality...
5 years later, officer faces reckoning for chokehold death
May 12, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The deadly confrontation five summers ago flickers in Gwen Carr's mind, competing for attention with warm, happy memories of her late son Eric Garner's life...
Erica Garner dies; fought police brutality after dad’s death
December 31, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The daughter of key Black Lives Matter figure Eric Garner died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack...
3 years after police chokehold death, US probe grinds on
July 22, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When federal prosecutors asked to meet last month with Eric Garner's family, it stoked speculation that their investigation into his death was finally nearing a resolution three years after his last words — "I can't breathe" — became a rallying cry for protests over police killings of black men...
Investigator who leaked chokehold officer’s records resigns
March 24, 2017 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A police watchdog agency investigator who leaked the disciplinary record of a white police officer involved in the chokehold death of unarmed black man Eric Garner resigned on Thursday...
Republicans worry House race could hurt diversity effort
January 19, 2015 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to attract more minority voters, some Republicans are worried that their party's near-certain candidate for a House seat in New York City could become the latest drag on GOP diversity efforts.
Group seeks new grand jury in Ferguson police shooting case
January 6, 2015 GMTST. LOUIS (AP) — A prominent civil rights organization, citing "grave legal concerns," is asking a Missouri judge to convene a new grand jury to consider charges against the white police officer who fatally shot unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown.
AP sources: Cops’ killer angry at chokehold death
December 21, 2014 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway station and killing himself, authorities said.