Regardless of his intent, Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo engaged in criminal conduct when he failed to release Eric Garner, first from a chokehold and then while restraining him on ground as the Staten Island man 11 times moaned that he couldn't breathe before he died, a prosecutor with the Civilian Complaint Review Board said during her closing arguments on June 6, the seventh and last day of the officer’s administrative trial.
For that, CCRB Deputy Chief Prosecutor Suzanne O’Hare said, Officer Pantaleo should be fired without benefit of his pension.
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