In an unusual shakeup, the Justice Department has dumped a New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, who was killed when a police officer placed him in a chokehold over selling untaxed cigarettes.
Despite concerns about the pace of the investigation into the death of Eric Garner, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dismissed claims that the Justice Department is dragging its feet.
Their killings prompted nationwide protests about the use of force by police but their names are missing from a federal government’s official database of homicides by officers.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A suburban Detroit man with Asperger’s syndrome faces up to five years in prison after the FBI said he threatened on Facebook to behead a New York police officer who placed Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a fatal chokehold, the Detroit News reports. Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles also is accused…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI team handling the civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man killed by a white NYPD officer, has plenty of experience with long-term probes and public corruption cases. CNN reports that the New York-based agents are taking a “free look” into the July death…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation into the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City will take several months and only recently got off the ground, ABC News reports. The federal government hasn’t set a timeline for the probe, which will be watched nationwide as protests continue to spring up after a…
