Meeks and Jeffries: Donovan Too Close to Cops in Garner Investigation

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Will Bredderman

Congressmen Hakeem Jeffries and Gregory Meeks said today that Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s relationship with the New York City Police Department precludes his office from having a fair and transparent investigation into the homicide of Eric Garner, and called for United States Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to step in.

Mr. Garner, 43, died last month after a cop placed him in an apparent chokehold while seeking to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Mr. Meeks and Mr. Jeffries–along with Congressmen Charlie Rangel and Jose Serrano, and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and Nydia Velazquez–penned a letter to Mr. Holder calling for an immediate investigation into both the Staten Island fatality and the NYPD’s “broken windows” policy, which they argued has led directly to the unfair targeting of blacks and Hispanics.



Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/meeks-and-jeffries-donovan-too-close-to-cops-in-garner-investigation/#ixzz3AOmvroNf

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