NYC neighborhood simmers over Eric Garner chokehold death

By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the Staten Island neighborhood where a black father of six died after police put him in a banned chokehold while arresting him for illegal cigarette sales, a painted tribute on a wall reads: "His name was Eric Garner. Father, son and friend." Garner lived and died in Tompkinsville, a neighborhood tucked on the north shore of New York's least populated borough. A grand jury decided on Wednesday afternoon not to indict the New York Police Department officer who put Garner, 43, in the chokehold. ...
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