{"id":71107,"date":"2014-12-04T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=71107"},"modified":"2014-12-04T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:08:03","slug":"federal-probe-ny-chokehold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/federal-probe-ny-chokehold-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal probe into NY chokehold case"},"content":{"rendered":"
The US justice department is to launch a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, a black man who was placed in an apparent chokehold by a white New York police officer.<\/p>\n
The inquiry was announced by Attorney General Eric Holder after a grand jury decided against charging the officer.<\/p>\n
That decision prompted streets protests in New York. Activists have called for a march in Washington next week.<\/p>\n
President Barack Obama said the case “speaks to larger issues”.<\/p>\n
The decision not to charge the officer came just a week after another grand jury in Missouri did not charge a white police officer who killed a black teenager in Ferguson, sparking riots there and protests across the country.<\/p>\n
This week, in light of the Ferguson protests, President Obama sought emergency funding to improve police training and to restore trust in policing.<\/p>\n
‘Fair and expeditious’ \nThe New York case sparked attention when a video of Officer Daniel Pantaleo arresting Mr Garner surfaced in July.<\/p>\n
In the incident, asthmatic Garner, 43, was heard on the video shouting “I can’t breathe!” as a number of officers restrained him on a street in New York.<\/p>\n
That cry was echoed by protesters who marched through the streets in New York late on Wednesday, occasionally disrupting traffic.<\/p>\n