Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams issued the following statement after the judge in the NYPD disciplinary trial for Daniel Pantaleo recommended that the officer be fired for his role in the death of Eric Garner.
"The judge confirmed what many of us have known for years - Daniel Pantaleo used a banned chokehold and killed Eric Garner. The world saw it on camera, heard Eric Garner say 'I can't breathe' eleven times, watched Pantaleo ignore those pleas. It has always been clear that he should be fired - that removing him from the NYPD is the absolute minimum of what some semblance of justice looks like.
"Nothing can undo what occurred five years ago on a Staten Island sidewalk. Nothing can truly heal the pain caused by years of inaction since. Eric Garner lost his life. Gwen Carr lost her son. Daniel Pantaleo may lose his job.
"I turn to Commissioner O'Neill and Mayor de Blasio. All of the work done toward better policing in this city is overshadowed if there is no accountability for someone who killed a man on camera. Accept this recommendation, and the refrain echoed for five long years from the streets of this city to the stage in Detroit. Fire Pantaleo."
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