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“The incident occurred in Manhattan’s 5th Precinct along a stretch of Hester Street near the corner of Mulberry Street in Little Italy, a few days ago.”

If grand jury transcripts are made public in Eric Garner’s case, Harvard Law School professor Ron Sullivan says “relevant information” could emerge for both the federal civil rights investigation and for Garner’s legal representatives, who are bringing a civil lawsuit against the city.

When police arrived, they found that 43-year-old Michael Foster had tackled 62-year-old Clarence Daniels and put him in a chokehold because he had spotted a gun under his coat. While attacking Daniels, Foster yelled “he has a gun” to which Daniels yelled back “I have a permit”.

Even as New York’s police department takes heat for its tactics in the outrage over the Eric Garner chokehold case, year-end crime statistics show two clear trends: low-level arrests are holding steady and overall crime continues to fall.

Civil rights leaders Thursday decried the grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man and announced plans for a march and a summit on racial justice in Washington later this month.

Following the news that the Staten Island grand jury will not indict the police officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold and caused his death, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio released a statement expressing that his administration will work on “changing the culture of law enforcement” that contributed to Garner’s death.

The family of a man who died after being placed in a police chokehold has filed a notice of claim to sue New York City, the Police Department, and six individual police officers for $75 million.

At Saturday’s march in Staten Island protesting Eric Garner’s death, the crowd’s grievances took a decidedly more racial tone, critical of the police’s targeting of black communities.

The city agency tasked with receiving public allegations of police misconduct, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), convened Tuesday to discuss the latest on their investigation of chokehold complaints and how to improve its handling of complaint cases.