Bill De Blasio Heckled By Protester During CNN Town Hall Over Eric Garner Case

LOADING ERROR LOADING Garner died in Staten Island in 2014 after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a banned chokehold. “I am outraged and disgusted by how the de Blasio administration and the NYPD continue to show that they don’t care about the murder of my son or black lives,” Carr said in a statement. Asked during the CNN town hall about Garner’s death and the city’s handling of the case, de Blasio said the man “should not have died” and that “there can never be another Eric Garner in this city or any place else in this country.” “What we learned immediately after the tragedy of Eric Garner was we had to do pretty much everything differently,” de Blasio said, stressing a need for federal leadership that will mandate “de-escalation training, implicit bias training” and body cameras for “every police officer in America.” “That’s how we end the tragedies,” the mayor said. “And it can be stopped.” #CNNTownHall https://t.co/SO11T2uCo5 pic.twitter.com/n8aqa1o1M7 — CNN August 25, 2019 During CNN’s July 31 Democratic debate, de Blasio was also heckled by protesters over the Garner debacle. Following the officer’s firing last week, a spokeswoman for the mayor said people were “being held accountable and there is finally some measure of justice” in the Garner case.