Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American man, died July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York soon after Daniel Pantaleo, a white police officer, put him in a chokehold for about 19 seconds while trying to arrest him on the suspicion of selling cigarettes unlawfully. In a video of the incident, Garner is seen lying … Continue reading The Choking Death of Eric Garner