Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended the harshest disciplinary action possible for what ThinkProgress called
a“chronic history of abuse,” the N.Y.P.D. gave Pantaleo the weakest disciplinary action it could.
Pantaleo had four substantiated allegations of abuse before choking Garner,
including an abusive stop and frisk and an abusive vehicle stop and search, according to leaked documents provided to ThinkProgress.
This case has rained violence upon every person of color even remotely involved, yet, in a legal system in which a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich if that's what[prosecutors] wanted, Pantaleo hasn't even lost his badge, let alone gone to trial,” Núñez said in July,
before an administrative judge recommended Pantaleo be fired on August 2.