The Daily Beast: Five Years After Killing Eric Garner, NYPD Fires Officer Daniel Pantaleo

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill expressed regret as he fired Daniel Pantaleo saying:

“It is unlikely that Mr. Garner thought he was in such poor health that a brief struggle with the police would cause his death. He should have decided against resisting arrest, but a man with a family lost his life. And that is an irreversible tragedy. And a hard-working police officer with a family and a man that took this job to do good, to make a difference in his home community has now lost his chosen career. And that is a different kind of tragedy.”