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Three years have passed since Eric Garner’s choking death at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo, and the episode remains unresolved. The grand jury’s secrecy and its decision not to indict anyone, along with Comptroller Scott Stringer’s unusually swift civil settlement with the Garner Family, have left the public with insufficient answers and a sense that justice has been denied. Civil rights organizations and governmental investigators have made additional attempts to obtain information, but all have failed. The public today knows little more than it did the day after Garner’s death. The absence of a satisfying resolution of the Garner case continues to fuel public unrest and a sense that without a public resolution there can be no peace. (read more…)