NYPD to Department of Justice: We're Going Forward with Departmental Charges Against Cops in Eric Garner Case

 Daniel Pantaleo

By Rocco Parascandola

The NYPD on Monday told the Department of Justice that after four years it is done waiting and will proceed with a disciplinary action against the officer involved in Eric Garner’s death.

That means the anticipated case against Officer Daniel Pantaleo — who brought Staten Island husband and father Garner to the ground using a banned chokehold that contributed to his death — will begin “on or promptly after September 1, 2018,” according to a letter dated Monday and sent from the Police Department’s top lawyer, Deputy Commissioner Lawrence Byrne, to a DOJ deputy chief, Paige Fitgerald.

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Source: The New York Daily News