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The daughter of Eric Garner, who was fatally choked by an NYPD officer in 2014, says the Tyre Nichols footage was treated like 'a public lynching'
In a new interview, Emerald Garner said it "boils my blood" that the public had to wait to view Nic…
Taylor Ardrey
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Trump says chokeholds by police sound 'so innocent and so perfect' but that 'generally speaking' the practice should be ended
Trump appeared to suggest that chokeholds might be permissible in certain situations, such as if po…
John Haltiwanger
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New video of a fatal 2019 arrest in Oklahoma shows a white officer respond 'I don't care' when Black man he is arresting says 'I can't breathe'
Derrick Scott died an hour after he arrest in 2019. Footage was obtained much later after a push fr…
Sinéad Baker
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Manuel Ellis, a black man, died of oxygen deprivation after yelling 'I can't breathe' while police restrained him, medical examiner says
Ellis died at the hands of police officers in Tacoma, Washington, on March 3, according to a newly …
Isaac Scher
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Spike Lee posts a powerful short film that links the deaths of George Floyd and 'Do the Right Thing' character Radio Raheem
The Oscar-winning filmmaker shows with '3 Brothers' that life and art is very similar when addressi…
Jason Guerrasio
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New York City is reportedly voting on a bill that would criminalize the NYPD's use of chokeholds during an arrest, as protests for George Floyd rage on
Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to veto the bill in 2015, but said Sunday that he would support it if…
Rosie Perper
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Eric Garner's mother says watching George Floyd plead 'I can't breathe' before dying in police custody was like having 'déjà vu all over again'
Eric Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, on Wednesday spoke out about George Floyd's death. Garner and Floy…
Kelly McLaughlin
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White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told a Trump loyalist 'you would be committing a felony' after being told of a plan to use the DOJ to overturn the election
Herschmann said he called Jeffrey Clark an "f-ing a-hole" and congratulated him on admitting that h…
Brent D. Griffiths
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NYC mayor Eric Adams converted his first paycheck into Bitcoin and Ether last week then the crypto market crashed
Adams announced in November after winning the mayoral race that he would take his first three paych…
Huileng Tan
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Loyal Trump-backer Rep. Billy Long claims that Trump's endorsement of "ERIC" in Missouri's GOP Senate primary is actually for him
Long, an early Trump endorser, added to the odd confusion after Trump offered a vague show of suppo…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Civil rights prosecutors reportedly recommended an NYPD officer be charged in Eric Garner's death
"We all know the cases of the last several years where, in confrontations with police, lives have b…
Michelle Mark
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Who's running for New York City mayor in the Democratic primary
The advent of ranked choice voting makes June 22nd's primary harder than ever to predict, with Andr…
Jake Lahut,John L. Dorman
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The NYPD has filed formal departmental charges against the officer who fatally choked Eric Garner in 2014
Pantaleo is not currently facing criminal charges and therefore will not be arraigned following Fri…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Eric Garner Protests Turn Violent In California
In Seattle, several hundred people marched downtown to police headquarters Saturday. Authorities sa…
Harrison Jacobs,Associated Pr…
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Congress Might Hold Hearings On Eric Garner's Death
Boehner was speaking the day after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict the white NYPD pol…
Colin Campbell
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The Prosecutor In The Eric Garner Case Looks Like He's Headed To Congress
It also showed voters in the district, which includes Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, agree 50…
Colin Campbell
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The Prosecutor At The Center Of The Eric Garner Case Is Considering A Congressional Bid
Both parties are expected to mount special election campaigns for Grimm's district, which is tradit…
Colin Campbell
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Everything We Know About Eric Garner's Death At The Hands Of The NYPD
"That investigation spanned four months, and focused on locating civilian eyewitnesses with informa…
Colin Campbell,Hunter Walker,…
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'Why would you want to "use" my dad?': Eric Garner's daughter slams Clinton campaign over WikiLeaks emails
The emails, exchanged between several Clinton staffers, had discussed a draft of a Clinton op-ed on…
Michelle Mark
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Eric Garner Outrage: White People Take To Twitter To Confess Crimes They've Gotten Away With
Years later, Arguelles came to see that mentality as tied to his status as a white man. "If I weren…