Chokehold case questions follow Daniel Donovan
Plus two Brooklyn special elections next week
Even if Dan Donovan prefers to talk about Iran, immigration or taxes, there’s another topic the Republican congressional hopeful can’t avoid: the death of Eric Garner at the hands of a police officer.
The Staten Island district attorney drew national attention when a grand jury he impaneled declined to charge a white New York Police Department officer, despite a widely watched cellphone video showing him putting the black Garner in what the medical examiner later called a fatal chokehold.
The outcome further fueled the debate over whether police officers are too quick to use force against minorities and if the grand jury system is too lenient on those officers accused of abusing their authority.