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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 09:32 AM Aug 2019

Officer in 'I Can't Breathe' Chokehold Was 'Untruthful,' Judge Says

Source: New York Times

Officer in ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Chokehold Was ‘Untruthful,’ Judge Says

The account Officer Daniel Pantaleo gave after Eric Garner died was “implausible and self-serving,” according to the opinion obtained by The New York Times.

By Ashley Southall
Aug. 18, 2019

When internal affairs investigators asked Officer Daniel Pantaleo in 2014 to define a chokehold, he described a scenario where “you use your forearm, grasped with the other hand, and you pull back with your forearm onto the windpipe preventing him from breathing.”

The investigators with the New York Police Department then had him watch video that showed him standing behind Eric Garner during a botched arrest five months earlier on Staten Island. In the video, Officer Pantaleo had his left forearm wrapped around Mr. Garner’s neck, hands clasped. Still, he denied having used the prohibited maneuver.

“No, I did not,” Officer Pantaleo said.

An administrative judge, in a 46-page opinion obtained by The New York Times, found this explanation “implausible and self-serving.”

The judge, Rosemarie Maldonado, who has recommended that Officer Pantaleo be fired, concluded that he had been “untruthful” during the interview, according to the opinion that grew out of a departmental trial that ended in June.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/nyregion/daniel-pantaleo-eric-garner-chokehold.html

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Officer in 'I Can't Breathe' Chokehold Was 'Untruthful,' Judge Says (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2019 OP
Pantaleo is UNFIT and should have been fired, then arrested for the murder of Eric Garner. BeckyDem Aug 2019 #1
Agree mercuryblues Aug 2019 #3
It is painful to listen to Eric's family. What a never ending nightmare. BeckyDem Aug 2019 #5
I believe the one trait that is a must and non-negotiable when it comes to LEOs is HONESTY RAB910 Aug 2019 #2
Which is why this fucking cop was guilty as sin Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #4

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
5. It is painful to listen to Eric's family. What a never ending nightmare.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:03 PM
Aug 2019

I love your sig line, btw. That is so true.

RAB910

(3,445 posts)
2. I believe the one trait that is a must and non-negotiable when it comes to LEOs is HONESTY
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 10:54 AM
Aug 2019

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They are given authority and power based on the idea that they are honest. If you have one that isn't they should be fired

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
4. Which is why this fucking cop was guilty as sin
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 11:13 AM
Aug 2019

And why the decision to not charge him was an egregious violation of justice. The cops set community-police relations back 50 years with that decision.

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