'I Can't Breathe!' Protesters Chant Garner's Chokehold Plea
Source: CNN
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
December 4, 2014 -- Updated 0717 GMT (1517 HKT)
New York (CNN) -- New Yorkers sat down in Times Square late Wednesday, filling its streets and sidewalks, and in the ambient light of its high-rising video walls and colorful advertisements, they immortalized some of Eric Garner's last words.
"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" they chanted in unison.
It was Garner's cry, as he lay near death in the chokehold of police Officer Daniel Pantaleo on July 17, on a Staten Island sidewalk, where police had taken him down.
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As in the case of Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager shot dead by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, Garner was black, and Pantaleo is white.
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Garner was also unarmed and did not attack police officers, although he verbally resisted arrest. He had his back to Pantaleo, when the officer threw his forearm around his throat.
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