Officer in fatal NY arrest stripped of gun, badge

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Officer in fatal NY arrest stripped of gun, badge
By VERENA DOBNIK and JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press | July 19, 2014 | Updated: July 19, 2014 7:55pm

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer involved in the arrest of a man who died in custody after being placed in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty, police said Saturday.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo, an eight-year NYPD veteran, and an officer who has been with the force for four years were both taken off the street after the death Thursday of 43-year-old Eric Garner on Staten Island, police said.

The department would not identify the second officer but said he would retain his gun and badge while on desk duty. The reassignment is effective immediately and will remain in effect while Garner's death is being investigated, police said.

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Partial video of the encounter obtained by the New York Daily News shows the 6-foot-3, 350-pound Garner becoming irate and refusing to be handcuffed as officers tried to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes on a sidewalk.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Rallies-planned-after-in-custody-death-of-NYC-man-5632335.php

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........suspicion of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes on a sidewalk. ?????

Loose, as in one or two? You can get killed for this?

[mark eagledove]

1. as usual, still has a job...

should be in jail.

someone repost Bill Mahers rant last night on the militarization of American police

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Killed for selling loosies while black. nt

[Chakab]

3. He should be stripped of his freedom and sent to Rikers.

That's what usually happens to people involved in homicide cases.

[DeSwiss]

4. K&R

- Unless it's being done by the 1% (or their designated flunkies), crimes against the 1% are severely punished.

''All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.'' ~George Orwell

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Don't cops write TICKETS anymore????

[A Simple Game]

6. Why isn't he treated like we would be? Arrested, jailed, and then a trial.

No internal investigation, all out in the open like ours would be.

[Ino]

7. Pantaleo has been trouble before

But it took a death to finally get this thug off the street!? Yay cops! What will it take to put him in prison?

From the link in the OP...
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Rallies-planned-after-in-custody-death-of-NYC-man-5632335.php

According to federal court records, three men have sued Pantaleo within the last two years over what they argued were unlawful, racially motivated arrests on Staten Island.

In the first lawsuit, settled by the city in January, two black men in their 40s accused Pantaleo and other officers of arresting them without cause and subjecting them to a "humiliating and unlawful strip search" on a Staten Island street that involved ordering them to "pull their pants and underwear down, squat and cough."

The men said they were held overnight on charges that were ultimately dismissed seven months later.

In a second lawsuit, a man accused Pantaleo and other officers of misrepresenting facts in a police report and other documents to substantiate charges that were eventually dismissed.

[Earth_First]

8. "misrepresenting the facts..."

"...in order to substantiate charges..."

In other words: he fucking lied.

Time to get this thug off the streets and off the force.

Permanently.

Before someone dies...

...oh wait.

Fuck these lying Scumbags!

[dballance]

9. Read the whole linked article if you really want to be infuriated.

Officer Pantaleo has been sued by three different people over the last two years:

According to federal court records, three men have sued Pantaleo within the last two years over what they argued were unlawful, racially motivated arrests on Staten Island.

In the first lawsuit, settled by the city in January, two black men in their 40s accused Pantaleo and other officers of arresting them without cause and subjecting them to a "humiliating and unlawful strip search" on a Staten Island street that involved ordering them to "pull their pants and underwear down, squat and cough."

The men said they were held overnight on charges that were ultimately dismissed seven months later.

In a second lawsuit, a man accused Pantaleo and other officers of misrepresenting facts in a police report and other documents to substantiate charges that were eventually dismissed.

And this is what the PBA's president had to say:


The president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, called Pantaleo's reassignment a "completely unwarranted, knee-jerk reaction."

The decision, Patrick Lynch said in a statement, "effectively pre-judges" the case and denies Pantaleo the "very benefit of a doubt that has long been part of the social contract that allows police officers to face the risks of this difficult and complex job."

Hey, PBA President, HE FUCKING KILLED ANOTHER PERSON BY USING A TECHNIQUE THAT IS NOT APPROVED.

If I made an illegal turn, hit and killed some one, I'd be under arrest.

This just really burns me up.

[heaven05]

10. so he was hustling a few

dollars, selling loose cigarettes that couldn't be taxed, while being black on the sidewalk, got accosted by these jerks in blue, got pissed because this was stupid harassment/abuse of police powers, started arguing/became "irate", shouldn't have because the all powerful police officer/master was in his face for a 'crime' with NO victims and was choked to death because of it. All for selling loose cancer sticks, untaxed while black. Ain't america great? Not to mention this 'crime' he died for, as being an affront to capitalism because there were no taxes involved..... Oh I'll wait for it from some on here. "But, but he was breaking the law and shouldn't have become irate with the police". He died because he was not respectful/nice enough to the police/masters. Could this guy not have been able to find a job, lost a job, had kids to feed, had to feed himself and figured something as innocuous as selling loose cigarettes, untaxed, was a good way to get some change? And he died for that? And for being a 350 pound black man threat to the powers of these police/masters I forgot to add. I'm irate.

[Hoppy]

11. "Loosies" are cigarettes that are taken from an open pack of cigarettes.

They are sold on the street at twice the price of the full pack. Cigarettes, as is milk, are gateway drugs to marijuana, then ultimately, crack cocaine. There are very few addicts who have not graduated from milk to cigarettes, then to crack.

Loosies and milk are a menace to society.

That is why, selling loosies is a capital crime.