NEW YORK - Five years after an African American father of six died after being apparently held in an illegal police chokehold, a video of which triggered the Black Lives Matter Movement, a disciplinary trial of the policeman accused of killing him got underway Monday in New York.
His death in July 2014 was the first of a wave of high-profile, racially charged incidents in the United States in which officers have been accused of using unreasonable force or being too quick to fire at black suspects. "It's been five years. Five years we've been on the frontlines trying to get justice and they're still trying to sweep it under the rug," Garner's mother Gwen Carr said on the sidelines of the hearing, referring to the ultimately failed efforts by the policeman's lawyers to have the hearing scrapped.The proceedings aim to determine whether the officer did in fact place Garner in a chokehold, a technique that the New York Police Department has banned since 1993.
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