City Medical Examiner Rebuts PBA Contention About Garner's Death

The city’s Chief Medical Examiner has rebutted a Dec. 6 claim from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association that Eric Garner’s autopsy report proves that the Staten Island man did not die of strangulation after he was held from behind by an NYPD Police Officer four years ago.

Just prior to an NYPD administrative proceeding that set May trial dates for Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is accused of using a chokehold in trying to arrest Mr. Garner, the PBA issued a statement saying that the autopsy report, previously unavailable to the officer’s lawyers, “demonstrates conclusively that Mr. Garner did not die of strangulation of the neck from a chokehold.”