The chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety believes the mayor could play a more decisive role than he’s said, and could have played it much sooner, in deciding…
The lack of a real race in the 23rd deprived voters there, and elsewhere, a debate on some of the issues that arose after the 2014 killing of Eric Garner…
Art has been part of the response to the killing of Eric Garner and other incidents. But artists with a political message can face challenges finding space to show their…
Criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter are two criminal charges that Officer Daniel Pantaleo might have faced. How does state law actually define those offenses?
Reaction to the grand jury decision ranged from outrage to sympathy. Some called for a special prosecutor, others for the firing of the officer involved.
