Officer in 'I Can't Breathe' Chokehold Was 'Untruthful,' Judge Says
Source: New York Times
Officer in I Cant 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. Garners 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
BeckyDem
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(8,361 posts)I love your sig line, btw. That is so true.
RAB910
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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)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.