NYPD officer won't face federal charges over Eric Garner's death after Barr reportedly overrules DOJ recommendation

The New York Police Department officer accused of strangling Eric Garner will not face federal charges. NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be charged in the chokehold death of Garner, whose repeated last words of "I can't breathe" became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. That decision reportedly comes after the DOJ's civil rights division recommended charges, but Attorney General William Barr overruled that suggestion, a senior DOJ o...