The Cop Who Killed Eric Garner Was Previously Sued For Civil Rights Violations

The cop who killed a man while trying to subdue him for arrest (pictured above) has been sued several times for allegedly violating the constitutional rights of black men, USA Today reports.

Daniel Pantaleo, a 29-year-old officer for the New York Police Department, put 43-year-old Eric Garner, a black man, in a chokehold on Staten Island when Garner tried to resist arrest. Garner, who was unarmed, told police he wasn’t doing anything wrong and wouldn’t let them touch him.

The NYPD faced accusations of racism and racial profiling after the release of a bystander tape that showed several cops crowding around a nonviolent Garner and Pantaleo hooking his arm around Garner’s neck and dragging him to the ground.