Eric Garner's mother and other police reform advocates have begun questioning New York Police Department officers in court as part of a judicial inquiry on issues surrounding her son's death, pressing them on topics ranging from erroneously charging Garner with felony cigarette tax evasion to texting a colleague shortly after Garner's death that,"It's not a big deal."
Garner died in 2014 after being placed in an unauthorized chokehold by then-police officer Daniel Pantaleo and Garner's final words --"I can't breathe" -- were captured on video and have become a rallying cry for police reform and the Black Lives Matter movement. During a 2019 departmental trial, a NYPD judge ruled that the chokehold led to a cascade of events that ended with Garner's death and recommended that Pantaleo be fired. He was fired in August of that year.
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