People/Characters Eric Garner
Works (8)
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
- Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming
- Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
- Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Represent! (2020-) #1: It's a Bird by Christian Cooper
- Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment by Christina Greene
Description
| Description | On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office attributed Garner's death to a combination of a chokehold, compression of his chest, and poor health. NYPD policy prohibits the use of chokeholds. His death prompted widespread protests against police brutality. Death of Eric Garner in Wikipedia |