No sooner had the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association demanded official investigations into information about the disciplinary history of the police officer blamed by many for the 2014 death of Eric Garner than the Civilian Complaint Review Board sprung a second leak.
Both stories appeared on the independent news website ThinkProgress.org. The first one, on March 21, involved Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was filmed tackling Mr. Garner, a 400-pound petty criminal with a history of 30 arrests. Mr. Garner died about an hour later of a heart attack.
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