TIME: NYPD Officer Testifies That He Inflated Charge Against Eric Garner After Chokehold Death

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NYPD Officer Testifies That He Inflated Charge Against Eric Garner After Chokehold Death May 21st 2019, 18:33, by Associated Press (NEW YORK) — After Eric Garner died during a confrontation with New York City police in 2014, one officer involved in the struggle says he wrote up paperwork exaggerating the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime. Officer Justin D’Amico testified Tuesday during the disciplinary trial of officer Daniel Pantaleo. Pantaleo is accused of placing Garner in a banned chokehold during the arrest. Garner was suspected of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. After he died, D’Amico said he filled out arrest papers that included a felony tax charge that would have required prosecutors to prove he’d sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes. D’Amico acknowledged it was not the correct charge. D’Amico said Garner had fewer than 100 cigarettes on him when police tried to arrest him. Media files: Gwen Carr, left, mother of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died as he was being subdued in a chokehold by police Officer Daniel Pantaleo nearly five years earlier, speaks during a news conference after leaving court in New York on May 9, 2019

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