I've been fighting alongside Eric Garner's family for five years—and I won't stop now | Opinion (via JumaaneWilliams)
Five years ago today, Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner. I did not think that would need to be declared, but the Department of Justice is now denying that someone should be held accountable for what we saw: a man placed in a chokehold that led to his death. What we heard: 11 cries of"I can't breathe." And what we know: Garner lost his life because Pantaleo took it from him.
On Tuesday, a new decision echoed old refrains. The Justice Department announced that it wouldn't bring federal civil rights charges against Pantaleo. That fight continues. And it goes beyond that block on Staten Island, beyond New York Police Department headquarters, beyond City Hall. It is a fight against a system of white men—many of them Democrats—who proclaim themselves to be for progress while undercutting that declaration with words and inaction.
The city medical examiner's office ruled Garner's death a homicide. Yet the Justice Department, and before it the state grand jury, which declined to indict Pantaleo five years ago, would like us to believe Garner died without anyone being responsible—or worse, that he himself was responsible.
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