NYPD lieutenant texted ‘not a big deal’ after being told of Eric Garner’s death

Text messages to a sergeant who had been present at the scene in 2014 were disclosed at disciplinary trial for officer Daniel Pantaleo

A senior New York city police officer involved in the arrest of Eric Garner, the African American man who died after being put in a chokehold by a police officer in 2014, told a subordinate that the incident was “not a big deal” immediately after being informed Garner had gone into cardiac arrest and was probably dead, it emerged on Thursday.

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