Judge Erika Edwards has ordered 13 witnesses, including NYPD and police union spokespeople, officers and sergeants, to testify in order to offer more insight and transparency into the fatal 2014 incident.
There will not be any legal rulings at the end and no one will be charged based on the testimony given in the inquiry.following a department disciplinary trial. Pantaleo was not indicted in Garner's death. Garner's family reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city.
The petitioners, like Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, and sister, Ellisha Flagg Garner, represent leaders of the community fighting against racial injustice, according to Garner family attorney Alvin Bragg, the Democratic nominee for Manhattan District Attorney. "This hearing will lead to further accountability for his death and advance the cause of racial justice in our criminal justice system, both in our city and across the nation," Bragg said in the hearing.Eric Garner poses with his children in an undated family photo provided by the National Action Network, July 19, 2014.Edwards excused New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and three police commissioners from testifying despite the Garner family's wishes.
The first witness, Lt. Christopher Bannon, is a 24-year veteran of the NYPD who now leads the Staten Island Grand Larceny Unit. In 2014, Bannon was a special operations lieutenant who texted that Garner's death was"not a big deal" because he believed the arrest was lawful. Bannon testified Monday he attended a March 2014 meeting at police headquarters about so-called quality-of-life crimes, including the sale of untaxed cigarettes.Garner was arrested twice before his fateful encounter with police, on March 28, 2014, and May 7, 2014, in response to the department's concern about the proliferation of untaxed single cigarettes, Bannon said.
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