Breaking News: Grand jury declines to indict officer in chokehold death of Eric Garner

Grand jury declines to indict officer in chokehold death of Eric Garner Los Angeles Times | December 3, 2014 | 11:44 AM A grand jury today declined to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black New Yorker whose last words — “I can’t breathe” — were caught on video and became a rallying cry for protesters demanding police reforms. A lawyer involved in the case confirmed the grand jury decision to the Associated Press. Garner died July 17, three weeks before a white policeman shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The two cases became symbols of what protesters called a tendency by white officers to overreact when confronting African Americans.