NY police fire officer for fatal chokehold

By Jonathan Allen
Updated August 20 2019 - 6:23am, first published 6:18am
The white police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014 has been fired.
The white police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in 2014 has been fired.

The New York Police Department has fired the white officer who used a deadly chokehold on a black man while trying to arrest him in 2014, an incident that helped fuel the "Black Lives Matter" movement in response to police use of force.

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