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'Leaks, lies and no answers': Family still demanding justice 6 years after Eric Garner's death
NEW YORK — There have been “leaks, lies and no answers” for six years about the death of Eric Garner at the hands of NYPD officers, lawyers for the Staten Island man’s family argued Monday.
Like this oft-repeated detail: Garner was selling untaxed cigarettes before his caught-on-video bust.
“One officer from a football field away said he saw Eric Garner selling smokes,” lawyer Alvin Bragg said at a virtual court hearing. “Another said he saw Eric Garner trying to break up a fight. Allow us to explore the underlying facts that have not yet been determined.”
The suit brought by Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, his sister Ellisha Flagg-Garner and six other allies and police reform advocates demands an inquiry be held to investigate, once and for all, the circumstances surrounding the stop, arrest, and death of Garner on July 17, 2014.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, former police Commissioner James O’Neill and FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro are all named as respondents in the suit, court papers show.
Ex-cop Daniel Pantaleo’s May 2019 departmental trial culminated in his firing, yet yielded few answers to outstanding factors in the case, Carr said Monday.