Daniel Pantaleo’s chokehold helped kill Eric Garner. Stop and Frisk, though supposedly no longer in practice, helped kill Eric Garner.
Racism actually killed Eric Garner.
The confrontation that led to Garner’s death was a part of Broken Windows, the policing policy adopted by the NYPD after a federal judge ruled that the city’s Stop and Frisk program was unconstitutional. Broken Windows is built around the aggressive enforcement of low-level, seemingly insignificant offenses, such as littering or drinking on your stoop.
