Release Eric Garner’s case evidence: Attorneys
The evidence that led a US grand jury to not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner should be released, petitioners say.
Attorneys told a three-judge panel in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday that they sought a full disclosure of the evidence that made the Staten Island grand jury not to bring charges against NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo over Garner's death.
Garner, a 43-year-old African American, died after being placed in the chokehold by Pantaleo on Staten Island on July 17.
According to the medical examiner's office, the cause of the death was "compression of neck (chokehold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police.”
However, the jury cleared Pantaleo contributing to a public outrage against US police brutality and racial profiling.
“Secrecy only reinforces suspicion, and there is deep suspicion here in the communities of color and others,” said James Meyerson, an attorney representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), seeking justice for the death along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society.
During the Tuesday hearing, the judges were presented with the points the attorneys had to offer.
After the jury let the killer cop walk free, days of protests in New York and around the US by Black Lives Matter activist failed to change anything.
Now, the appeals court is being urged to release the evidence that led to the decision.
In the meantime, the videos of the incident have been widely viewed with Garner repeatedly telling police officers "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!"
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