NYC #ShutItDown for Eric Garner! This Friday we show our resistance This Friday we show our power #NOJUSTICENOPEACE pic.twitter.com/Pn2kZacv1X — Millions March NYC (@MillionsMarch) July 11, 2015 One year after Eric Garner was brought to his knees by a New York Police Department officer and placed in a violent and deadly chokehold for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, marchers […]

Perhaps it’s not the justice hoped many for, but it’s at least a resolution: The New York Times is reporting that the City of New York has agreed to pay the family of Eric Garner $5.9 million to settle a claim over his killing in New York City’s Staten Island borough one year ago on […]

The anniversary of Eric Garner‘s death is approaching and his family is seeking closure, but as they seek peace, the officer who put Garner into a…

  It hasn’t even been a month since gentle giant, Eric Garner died after an NYPD officer placed him in a choke hold and the police department is making headlines for using the same restraint tactic again. This time, 27-year-old Rosan Miller, who is seven months pregnant, was allegedly placed into a chokehold after getting busted for illegal […]

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  A New York City police officer put a seven-months-pregnant woman in a chokehold after a dispute over illegal grilling in Brooklyn, NY. For more…

Brian Gary-Hogan honored fallen Staten Island resident Eric Garner the best way he knew how–balling. The 21-year-old college sophomore donned a shirt that read “RIP Eric Garner” when he leaped over a NYC police car in Staten Island at the “Under The Lights” league, sending onlookers into a roaring celebration. Eric Garner died while being […]

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  An NYPD internal report prepared after Eric Garner’s death fails to mention the chokehold used to subdue him and states that Garner was not…

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News of the fatal police encounter that led to Eric Garner’s death went viral with help of a video recording. That video was taken by Ramsey…

Ad-hoc group “New Yorkers Against Bratton” held a press conference outside City Hall Monday, demanding that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton resign over Eric Garner‘s death due to his controversial Broken Windows theory. RELATED: Officer In Fatal NY Arrest Stripped Of Gun, Badge [VIDEO] “We’re out here today in response to the chokehold death of Staten […]