This post proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Justice is Blind.
And she's packing.
Remember that the Police are not protecting your and my safety.
Their first responsibility is toward the protection of Property.
Specifically, the Property of the Ruling Class.
So often folks feel that they can relate to the Ruling Class as being,
"just like the rest of us". Do not be fooled by their public front.
Just look at the people they hire to protect their law and defend
their property. The contempt the police have for the working class,
especially those of Color, is a reflection of their Masters, the
Ruling Class. The lower you are on the economic ladder, or if you are
both poor and aged, or if you look poor or aged, the greater is the
contempt heaped upon you. So the lesson is for you to try hard not to
become an old, poor, woman of color, with a disability.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/27/16, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@littlebreezes.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I didn't know Elinor personally at the time but had friends who
> lived in that project and knew her by her good reputation. There are a few
> observations that can be made here regarding this article:
> a. Presumably the reason the author chose to cite these examples, among the
> thousands are that these are the ones that made the paper. When it comes to
> poor life in NYC, few if any, media actually visit the neighborhoods,
> especially in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Instead the rely on press releases
> usually from the cops.
> b. As I said in a previous message, take a look at what percentage of these
> killings happen in the Bronx and Brooklyn, especially in the Bronx. It is
> very disproportionate based on population.
> c. The reason for the above is that once cops get into trouble for bad
> behavior in Manhattan and Queens they get transferred to the boroughs that
> have the least media coverage, mostly into the South Bronx.
> d. The article calls the cops "special duty", this really downplays who they
> were. They were actually ESU (Emergency Services Unit). In case that doesn't
> raise your eyebrows, FYI NYC does not have a SWAT team. What most cities
> call their SWAT team is called ESYU in NYC. So effectively, there was the
> equivalent of a half dozen SWAT team members sent to deal with an overdue
> rent situation.
> e. In this overdue rent situation, it was a no knock, no announcement
> situation. The cops just kicked in the door in their ESU commando outfits,
> all black, with no identification.
> f. " Baez, Dec. 22, 1994: Mr. Baez, 29, a security guard, was
> playing football outside his mother's"
> My mother was good friends of Anthony's mother. Officer Livotti had a
> reputation for drinking on the job and then sleeping in his cruiser. After
> Anthony's football hit the car Livotti killed him. Livotti was already under
> investigation for assaulting a 13 year old kid. Although acquitted of murder
> he was convicted of civil rights charges. Sickenly, during a police rally
> someone who looked exactly like Livotti spoke anonymously. This is while
> Livotti was supposed to be in jail fueling speculation that Giuliani found a
> stooge to serve Livotti's time for him. Livotti bragged that he was offered
> a position with the PBA upon his release. No indication if that was true.
> g. "Diallo, Feb. 4, 1999: Mr. Diallo". This was the man who was shot 41
> times by four white cops. Initially one of the cops said he tripped and his
> gun went off and the other cops starting firing. He later recanted his
> statement. Three of the four went on to be promoted to high level
> supervisory positions. This inspired the Springsteen song "41 shots".
> h. " Bell, Nov. 25, 2006:". One of the detectives was implicated in a child
> pornography ring which lead to the downfall of all three.
> I. "Graham, Feb. 2, 2012: Mr. Graham" despite the fact that the cops
> acknowledged that the victim was not doing anything wrong and that he was
> targeted and chased down to build up their arrest numbers, the grand jury
> still let the killer off the hook.
> j. "Gurley, Nov. 20, 2014: Mr. G". The victim in this case was walking in a
> stairwell with his girlfriend. The PD said the shooting was accidental. So,
> the cop accidentally, drew his pistol, accidentally, chambered a round,
> accidentally took the safety off, and accidentally pulled the trigger
> multiple times. After the shooting the only thing the cop did was send a
> text message to his union rep. He did not call for medical help despite the
> begging of the victim's friend. He tried to walk away from the shooting but
> neighbors called for an ambulance but it was too late.
> k. In 1980 NY PD shot 85 year old Frank Sturchio to death in his own home.
> The more things change the more they stay the same.
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 9:06 PM
> To: blind-democracy@freelists.org
> Subject: [blind-democracy] Remembering the 12 Gauge Police Eviction of a 67
> Year Old Grandmother in the South Bronx
>
>
> Bernstein writes: "Thirty-two years ago, in 1984, I was teaching media
> activism in an alternative high school in the South Bronx with filmmaker
> Chela Blitt. We were getting ready to begin a documentary with the kids on
> the social, political, and economic reasons why their neighborhood looked
> more like Hiroshima after the war than a neighborhood in New York City. But
> instead, we changed gears and produced with the kids the documentary film
> '12-Gauge Eviction,' which chronicles the close-range gunning down of a
> 67-year-old, arthritic grandmother named Eleanor Bumpurs."
>
> Eleanor Bumpurs. (photo: unknown)
>
>
> Remembering the 12 Gauge Police Eviction of a 67 Year Old Grandmother in the
> South Bronx By Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
> 18 July 16
>
> Thirty-two years ago, in 1984, I was teaching media activism in an
> alternative high school in the South Bronx with filmmaker Chela Blitt. We
> were getting ready to begin a documentary with the kids on the social,
> political, and economic reasons why their neighborhood looked more like
> Hiroshima after the war than a neighborhood in New York City. But instead,
> we changed gears and produced with the kids the documentary film "12-Gauge
> Eviction," which chronicles the close-range gunning down of a 67-year-old,
> arthritic grandmother named Eleanor Bumpurs, in the Sedgwick housing project
> in the Highbridge Section of the South Bronx.
> And we got off to a swift start. One of my students had heard the shotgun
> blasts through the walls and halls of the high-rise. In no time, with our
> cameras and recording equipment in tow, we were filming through the broken
> keyhole into the murder scene, where Eleanor Bumpurs was snuffed out of this
> world for being late on her rent. She owed the city about $400 dollars back
> rent, which she claimed she was withholding until the city came in and did
> some necessary plumbing and heating repairs.
> Social Services called in the police, and what unfolded next was obscene,
> extremely brutal, but not all that uncommon. A half-dozen special duty New
> York City cops arrived at the front door of her small apartment, armed with
> mace, tear gas, shields, nets, clubs and side arms, but finally decided that
> nothing less than a 12-gauge pump shotgun fired at close range would do the
> trick. The first blast from the shotgun took Bumpurs' hand off. The final
> blast blew the back of her head off.
> The cops claimed they had no choice. They were facing mortal danger,
> claiming Eleanor Bumpurs, mother of seven and grandmother, was wielding a
> butcher knife. They claimed the shoot was clean. The local corporate press
> took it from there. Many press accounts, informed by the police of course,
> characterized Bumpurs as being "emotionally disturbed" and "deranged."
> My students jumped all over this. One student, a Junior named Douglas, who
> lived in the projects and had ear-witnessed the shots through the walls -
> led us to the crime scene. He guided us to the floor where Bumpurs had lived
> and died, and to the senior citizen center, the library, and other parts of
> the projects where the residents would congregate. And the kids started to
> ask questions and interview residents about the police killing of Mrs.
> Bumpurs.
> "If the lady was so mentally disturbed," pointed out one resident, "people
> wouldn't have asked her to babysit their kids." The resident knew of several
> parents who had entrusted Bumpurs to babysit their kids for them, until her
> arthritis became too severe to "chase the little ones around." One Housing
> Authority supervisor, Michael Pierson, told the kids, "She just seemed like
> a quiet individual to me."
> That evening, my students carried their cameras to an outdoor prayer vigil
> at the projects and interviewed friends and relatives of Bumpurs, as well as
> a few local politicians who had come to pay their respects to the slain
> grandmother. "It's amazing that any time a black or Hispanic is killed like
> this, it's police procedure," said the Rev. Wendell Foster, who was then a
> Bronx City councilman. Sound familiar? One resident told the student
> investigators, "A couple of weeks ago a dangerous animal escaped from the
> Bronx Zoo, and they captured it with a sleep dart and brought it safely back
> to its cage in the zoo. Around here" said the resident, who requested
> anonymity for fear of police retribution, "cops treat black folks worse than
> zoo animals. They'll risk their white skin to save an animal, but they'll
> murder us on the spot."
> I have to believe that it was the thorough and unrelenting investigative
> work of the students, along with a local independent newspaper, The City
> Sun, that forced the court's hand, making them deal with some of the real
> facts of the case, rather than let most of the local the racist corporate
> press marginalize Bumpurs as a community danger, a crazed black woman who
> was willing to kill a cop to avoid paying her back rent.
> After reviewing extensive testimony, a grand jury indeed voted for an
> indictment for second-degree manslaughter against Officer Stephen Sullivan,
> who cut down Bumpurs at close range with two quick blasts from his
> department issued pump-style shotgun. However, subsequently, a state judge
> dismissed the indictment against Sullivan, asserting the evidence was
> "legally insufficient" to indict Sullivan for manslaughter or any other
> offense.
> In an interview after the ruling, when asked if under similar circumstances
> he would do the same thing, Sullivan replied, "Yes, I would," according to
> The New York Times. And New York City cops have been killing people of color
> non-stop before and since. Here's a partial list published by The New York
> Times:
> . Jose (Kiko) Garcia, July 3, 1992: During a struggle with police
> officers in the lobby of an apartment building, Mr. Garcia, a 23-year-old
> Dominican immigrant who the police said was carrying a revolver, was shot
> twice by Officer Michael O'Keefe.
> What happened: Later that year, a grand jury cleared Officer O'Keefe,
> supporting the officer's assertion that Mr. Garcia reached for a gun before
> he was shot.
>
> . Ernest Sayon, April 29, 1994: Mr. Sayon, 22, was standing outside a
> Staten Island housing complex when police officers on an anti-drug patrol
> tried to arrest him. Mr. Sayon suffocated because of pressure on his back,
> chest and neck while he was handcuffed on the ground.
> What happened: A grand jury declined to file criminal charges against any of
> the three police officers involved, apparently concluding that the officers
> had used reasonable force in subduing Mr. Sayon.
>
> . Nicholas Heyward Jr., Sept. 27, 1994: Nicholas, 13, was playing cops
> and robbers with friends in a Gowanus Houses building stairwell when Officer
> Brian George, mistaking the teenager's toy rifle for a real gun, shot him to
> death.
> What happened: The Brooklyn district attorney decided not to present the
> case to a grand jury, saying the real culprit was an authentic-looking toy
> gun.
>
> . Anthony Baez, Dec. 22, 1994: Mr. Baez, 29, a security guard, was
> playing football outside his mother's Bronx home when a stray toss landed on
> a police car. Mr. Baez died after an officer applied a chokehold while
> trying to arrest him.
> What happened: Francis X. Livoti, who had been dismissed by the force for
> using an illegal chokehold, was convicted on federal civil rights charges
> and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, two years after he won
> acquittal in a state trial.
>
> . Amadou Diallo, Feb. 4, 1999: Mr. Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant
> from Guinea, was killed by four officers who fired 41 times in the vestibule
> of his apartment building in the Bronx. They said he seemed to have a gun,
> but he was unarmed.
> What happened: In February 2000, after a tense and racially charged trial,
> all four officers, who were white, were acquitted of second-degree murder
> and other charges, fueling protests. The city agreed to pay the family $3
> million.
>
> . Patrick Dorismond, March 16, 2000: Mr. Dorismond, 26, an unarmed
> black security guard, was shot dead by an undercover narcotics detective in
> a brawl in front of a bar in Midtown Manhattan, after Mr. Dorismond became
> offended when the detective asked him if he had any crack cocaine.
> What happened: By late July, a grand jury declined to file criminal charges
> against the detective, Anthony Vasquez, concluding that the shooting of Mr.
> Dorismond was not intentional. The city agreed to pay $2.25 million to his
> family.
>
> . Ousmane Zongo, May 23, 2003: Mr. Zongo, 43, an art restorer, was
> shot and killed by a police officer during a raid at a Chelsea warehouse
> that the police believed was the base of a CD counterfeiting operation.
> What happened: In 2005, Officer Bryan A. Conroy was convicted at the second
> of two trials and sentenced to probation. The judge placed the blame for the
> killing primarily on the poor training and supervision by the Police
> Department. The city agreed to pay the family $3 million.
>
> . Timothy Stansbury Jr., Jan. 24, 2004: Mr. Stansbury, 19, a high
> school student, was about to take a rooftop shortcut to a party when he was
> fatally shot by Officer Richard S. Neri Jr., who was patrolling the roof.
> What happened: A grand jury decided not to indict Officer Neri. In December
> 2006, he was suspended without pay for 30 days, permanently stripped of his
> gun, and reassigned to a property clerk's office. The city agreed to pay the
> Stansbury family $2 million.
>
> . Sean Bell, Nov. 25, 2006: Five detectives fired 50 times into a car
> occupied by Mr. Bell, 23, and two others after a confrontation outside a
> Queens club on Mr. Bell's wedding day. He was killed.
> What happened: After a heated seven-week nonjury trial in 2008, the judge
> found Detectives Gescard F. Isnora, Michael Oliver and Marc Cooper not
> guilty of all charges, which included manslaughter and assault. In 2012,
> Detective Isnora was fired, and Detectives Cooper and Oliver, along with a
> supervisor, were forced to resign. The city agreed to pay the family $3.25
> million.
>
> . Ramarley Graham, Feb. 2, 2012: Mr. Graham, 18, was shot and killed
> by Richard Haste, a police officer, in the bathroom of his Bronx apartment
> after being pursued into his home by a team of officers from a plainclothes
> street narcotics unit. Mr. Graham was unarmed.
> What happened: A grand jury voted to indict Officer Haste on charges of
> first- and second-degree manslaughter, but a judge dismissed the indictment
> a year later. Prosecutors sought a new indictment. In August 2013, a grand
> jury decided not to bring charges in the case. The city agreed to pay the
> family $3.9 million.
>
> . Eric Garner, July 17, 2014: Mr. Garner, 43, died after Officer
> Daniel Pantaleo restrained him using a chokehold, a maneuver that was banned
> by the New York Police Department more than 20 years ago. The officers were
> trying to arrest Mr. Garner, whose death was attributed in part to the
> chokehold, on charges of illegally selling cigarettes.
> What happened: A grand jury, impaneled in September by the Staten Island
> district attorney, voted not to bring charges against Officer Pantaleo. The
> city agreed to pay the family $5.9 million.
>
> . Akai Gurley, Nov. 20, 2014: Mr. Gurley, 28, was entering the
> stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project with his girlfriend when Officer
> Peter Liang, standing 14 steps above him, shot Mr. Gurley in the chest. The
> police described the fatal shooting of Mr. Gurley, who was unarmed, as an
> accident.
> What happened: Officer Liang was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter
> on Feb. 11, 2016. He was then fired from the department. The Brooklyn
> district attorney did not seek jail time.
>
> ________________________________________
> Dennis J. Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on
> Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar Award for his work as
> a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the author of Special Ed:
> Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
> Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
> to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
> Supported News.
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> valid.
>
> Eleanor Bumpurs. (photo: unknown)
> http://readersupportednews.org/http://readersupportednews.org/
> Remembering the 12 Gauge Police Eviction of a 67 Year Old Grandmother in the
> South Bronx By Dennis J Bernstein, Reader Supported News
> 18 July 16
> hirty-two years ago, in 1984, I was teaching media activism in an
> alternative high school in the South Bronx with filmmaker Chela Blitt. We
> were getting ready to begin a documentary with the kids on the social,
> political, and economic reasons why their neighborhood looked more like
> Hiroshima after the war than a neighborhood in New York City. But instead,
> we changed gears and produced with the kids the documentary film "12-Gauge
> Eviction," which chronicles the close-range gunning down of a 67-year-old,
> arthritic grandmother named Eleanor Bumpurs, in the Sedgwick housing project
> in the Highbridge Section of the South Bronx.
> And we got off to a swift start. One of my students had heard the shotgun
> blasts through the walls and halls of the high-rise. In no time, with our
> cameras and recording equipment in tow, we were filming through the broken
> keyhole into the murder scene, where Eleanor Bumpurs was snuffed out of this
> world for being late on her rent. She owed the city about $400 dollars back
> rent, which she claimed she was withholding until the city came in and did
> some necessary plumbing and heating repairs.
> Social Services called in the police, and what unfolded next was obscene,
> extremely brutal, but not all that uncommon. A half-dozen special duty New
> York City cops arrived at the front door of her small apartment, armed with
> mace, tear gas, shields, nets, clubs and side arms, but finally decided that
> nothing less than a 12-gauge pump shotgun fired at close range would do the
> trick. The first blast from the shotgun took Bumpurs' hand off. The final
> blast blew the back of her head off.
> The cops claimed they had no choice. They were facing mortal danger,
> claiming Eleanor Bumpurs, mother of seven and grandmother, was wielding a
> butcher knife. They claimed the shoot was clean. The local corporate press
> took it from there. Many press accounts, informed by the police of course,
> characterized Bumpurs as being "emotionally disturbed" and "deranged."
> My students jumped all over this. One student, a Junior named Douglas, who
> lived in the projects and had ear-witnessed the shots through the walls -
> led us to the crime scene. He guided us to the floor where Bumpurs had lived
> and died, and to the senior citizen center, the library, and other parts of
> the projects where the residents would congregate. And the kids started to
> ask questions and interview residents about the police killing of Mrs.
> Bumpurs.
> "If the lady was so mentally disturbed," pointed out one resident, "people
> wouldn't have asked her to babysit their kids." The resident knew of several
> parents who had entrusted Bumpurs to babysit their kids for them, until her
> arthritis became too severe to "chase the little ones around." One Housing
> Authority supervisor, Michael Pierson, told the kids, "She just seemed like
> a quiet individual to me."
> That evening, my students carried their cameras to an outdoor prayer vigil
> at the projects and interviewed friends and relatives of Bumpurs, as well as
> a few local politicians who had come to pay their respects to the slain
> grandmother. "It's amazing that any time a black or Hispanic is killed like
> this, it's police procedure," said the Rev. Wendell Foster, who was then a
> Bronx City councilman. Sound familiar? One resident told the student
> investigators, "A couple of weeks ago a dangerous animal escaped from the
> Bronx Zoo, and they captured it with a sleep dart and brought it safely back
> to its cage in the zoo. Around here" said the resident, who requested
> anonymity for fear of police retribution, "cops treat black folks worse than
> zoo animals. They'll risk their white skin to save an animal, but they'll
> murder us on the spot."
> I have to believe that it was the thorough and unrelenting investigative
> work of the students, along with a local independent newspaper, The City
> Sun, that forced the court's hand, making them deal with some of the real
> facts of the case, rather than let most of the local the racist corporate
> press marginalize Bumpurs as a community danger, a crazed black woman who
> was willing to kill a cop to avoid paying her back rent.
> After reviewing extensive testimony, a grand jury indeed voted for an
> indictment for second-degree manslaughter against Officer Stephen Sullivan,
> who cut down Bumpurs at close range with two quick blasts from his
> department issued pump-style shotgun. However, subsequently, a state judge
> dismissed the indictment against Sullivan, asserting the evidence was
> "legally insufficient" to indict Sullivan for manslaughter or any other
> offense.
> In an interview after the ruling, when asked if under similar circumstances
> he would do the same thing, Sullivan replied, "Yes, I would," according to
> The New York Times. And New York City cops have been killing people of color
> non-stop before and since. Here's a partial list published by The New York
> Times:
> . Jose (Kiko) Garcia, July 3, 1992: During a struggle with police
> officers in the lobby of an apartment building, Mr. Garcia, a 23-year-old
> Dominican immigrant who the police said was carrying a revolver, was shot
> twice by Officer Michael O'Keefe.
> What happened: Later that year, a grand jury cleared Officer O'Keefe,
> supporting the officer's assertion that Mr. Garcia reached for a gun before
> he was shot.
> . Ernest Sayon, April 29, 1994: Mr. Sayon, 22, was standing outside a
> Staten Island housing complex when police officers on an anti-drug patrol
> tried to arrest him. Mr. Sayon suffocated because of pressure on his back,
> chest and neck while he was handcuffed on the ground.
> What happened: A grand jury declined to file criminal charges against any of
> the three police officers involved, apparently concluding that the officers
> had used reasonable force in subduing Mr. Sayon.
> . Nicholas Heyward Jr., Sept. 27, 1994: Nicholas, 13, was playing cops
> and robbers with friends in a Gowanus Houses building stairwell when Officer
> Brian George, mistaking the teenager's toy rifle for a real gun, shot him to
> death.
> What happened: The Brooklyn district attorney decided not to present the
> case to a grand jury, saying the real culprit was an authentic-looking toy
> gun.
> . Anthony Baez, Dec. 22, 1994: Mr. Baez, 29, a security guard, was
> playing football outside his mother's Bronx home when a stray toss landed on
> a police car. Mr. Baez died after an officer applied a chokehold while
> trying to arrest him.
> What happened: Francis X. Livoti, who had been dismissed by the force for
> using an illegal chokehold, was convicted on federal civil rights charges
> and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, two years after he won
> acquittal in a state trial.
> . Amadou Diallo, Feb. 4, 1999: Mr. Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant
> from Guinea, was killed by four officers who fired 41 times in the vestibule
> of his apartment building in the Bronx. They said he seemed to have a gun,
> but he was unarmed.
> What happened: In February 2000, after a tense and racially charged trial,
> all four officers, who were white, were acquitted of second-degree murder
> and other charges, fueling protests. The city agreed to pay the family $3
> million.
> . Patrick Dorismond, March 16, 2000: Mr. Dorismond, 26, an unarmed
> black security guard, was shot dead by an undercover narcotics detective in
> a brawl in front of a bar in Midtown Manhattan, after Mr. Dorismond became
> offended when the detective asked him if he had any crack cocaine.
> What happened: By late July, a grand jury declined to file criminal charges
> against the detective, Anthony Vasquez, concluding that the shooting of Mr.
> Dorismond was not intentional. The city agreed to pay $2.25 million to his
> family.
> . Ousmane Zongo, May 23, 2003: Mr. Zongo, 43, an art restorer, was
> shot and killed by a police officer during a raid at a Chelsea warehouse
> that the police believed was the base of a CD counterfeiting operation.
> What happened: In 2005, Officer Bryan A. Conroy was convicted at the second
> of two trials and sentenced to probation. The judge placed the blame for the
> killing primarily on the poor training and supervision by the Police
> Department. The city agreed to pay the family $3 million.
> . Timothy Stansbury Jr., Jan. 24, 2004: Mr. Stansbury, 19, a high
> school student, was about to take a rooftop shortcut to a party when he was
> fatally shot by Officer Richard S. Neri Jr., who was patrolling the roof.
> What happened: A grand jury decided not to indict Officer Neri. In December
> 2006, he was suspended without pay for 30 days, permanently stripped of his
> gun, and reassigned to a property clerk's office. The city agreed to pay the
> Stansbury family $2 million.
> . Sean Bell, Nov. 25, 2006: Five detectives fired 50 times into a car
> occupied by Mr. Bell, 23, and two others after a confrontation outside a
> Queens club on Mr. Bell's wedding day. He was killed.
> What happened: After a heated seven-week nonjury trial in 2008, the judge
> found Detectives Gescard F. Isnora, Michael Oliver and Marc Cooper not
> guilty of all charges, which included manslaughter and assault. In 2012,
> Detective Isnora was fired, and Detectives Cooper and Oliver, along with a
> supervisor, were forced to resign. The city agreed to pay the family $3.25
> million.
> . Ramarley Graham, Feb. 2, 2012: Mr. Graham, 18, was shot and killed
> by Richard Haste, a police officer, in the bathroom of his Bronx apartment
> after being pursued into his home by a team of officers from a plainclothes
> street narcotics unit. Mr. Graham was unarmed.
> What happened: A grand jury voted to indict Officer Haste on charges of
> first- and second-degree manslaughter, but a judge dismissed the indictment
> a year later. Prosecutors sought a new indictment. In August 2013, a grand
> jury decided not to bring charges in the case. The city agreed to pay the
> family $3.9 million.
> . Eric Garner, July 17, 2014: Mr. Garner, 43, died after Officer
> Daniel Pantaleo restrained him using a chokehold, a maneuver that was banned
> by the New York Police Department more than 20 years ago. The officers were
> trying to arrest Mr. Garner, whose death was attributed in part to the
> chokehold, on charges of illegally selling cigarettes.
> What happened: A grand jury, impaneled in September by the Staten Island
> district attorney, voted not to bring charges against Officer Pantaleo. The
> city agreed to pay the family $5.9 million.
> . Akai Gurley, Nov. 20, 2014: Mr. Gurley, 28, was entering the
> stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project with his girlfriend when Officer
> Peter Liang, standing 14 steps above him, shot Mr. Gurley in the chest. The
> police described the fatal shooting of Mr. Gurley, who was unarmed, as an
> accident.
> What happened: Officer Liang was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter
> on Feb. 11, 2016. He was then fired from the department. The Brooklyn
> district attorney did not seek jail time.
>
> Dennis J. Bernstein is the executive producer of Flashpoints, syndicated on
> Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of a 2015 Pillar Award for his work as
> a journalist whistleblower. He is most recently the author of Special Ed:
> Voices from a Hidden Classroom.
> Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
> to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
> Supported News.
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