Judge recommends Staten Island chokehold cop Daniel Pantaleo be fired: source
Source: New York Daily News
A NYPD judge has recommended that Officer Daniel Pantaleo be fired for his hands-on role in the Staten Island chokehold death of Eric Garner, the Daily News has learned.
Trials Commissioner Rosemary Maldonado, who presided over Pantaleo’s departmental hearing ending last month, issued her ruling Friday, according to a source involved in the case.
Pantaleo and the Civilian Complaint Review Board now have 10 business days to review her recommendation and respond to it before the file goes to Police Commissioner James O’Neill, who will make the final decision on Pantaleo’s future.
If O’Neill disagrees with Maldonado’s recommendation, it will almost certainly trigger harsh criticism and massive protests.
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By Ashley Southall and William K. Rashbaum
Aug. 2, 2019
Five years after Eric Garner died in police custody and ignited a national outcry, a police administrative judge recommended on Friday that the officer who placed him in a chokehold during the botched arrest should be fired, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The judge’s decision sets in motion the final stage of a long legal and political battle over the fate of the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who has become for many critics of the department an emblem of what they see as overly aggressive policing in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Mr. Garner’s death helped spur a wave of protests against police brutality that led to changes in policy in many cities, and his last words — “I can’t breathe” — became a battle cry for the Black Lives Matter movement.
The New York police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, must now make a final decision on whether to allow Officer Pantaleo to remain on the force, and finds himself caught between elected leaders who have been calling for the officer to be fired and leaders of police unions, who have cast the officer as a scapegoat. Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat running for president, has resisted pushing for the officer’s dismissal for years, saying he was respecting due process. He was heckled at a national debate on Wednesday night by protesters shouting “Fire Pantaleo,” and vowed that Mr. Garner’s family would soon receive justice.
The judge’s recommendation comes two weeks after Attorney General William P. Barr announced that the Justice Department would not seek a federal indictment against the officer on civil rights charges, ending five years of internal debate among federal prosecutors.
Officer Pantaleo was captured on video using a chokehold on Mr. Garner in 2014 as he and other officers subdued him. Mr. Garner was believed to be illegally selling loose cigarettes. A city medical examiner determined the chokehold set in motion a “lethal cascade” of events, including an asthma attack and a fatal heart attack. Whether Officer Pantaleo will be dismissed and lose his pension is up to Mr. O’Neill, who has the final say over the disciplining of officers. Prosecutors and the defense typically have up to two weeks to respond to the findings of the judge, Rosemarie Maldonado, a deputy police commissioner who oversees disciplinary hearings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/nyregion/pantaleo-garner.html
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Remember the FBI warned us about white supremacy infiltrating law enforcement back in 2003. We should have listened then. We did nothing. Now look at what has happened. 
he was selling loose cigarettes for godsake.
when I watch the video at the beginning I just think he is going to be dead in a few minutes. the cop(s) murdered him. What does it take to fire the guy at the least and/or charge him with murder.
