Dramatic new video shows how neither cops nor EMS workers gave any medical assistance to a Staten Island dad as he lay unconscious on a sidewalk after an officer put him into a chokehold against department protocol.
The 7-minute You Tube video shows Eric Garner, 43, lying unconscious on the Tompkinsville sidewalk after Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in the choke-hold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.
At least four cops surround the handcuffed man, checking his pockets, while four others stand nearby as they wait for an ambulance.
One officer turns Garner over, pushes on his shoulder, and tries to talk to him as his head falls to the side.
“Breathe in, breathe out,” the officer tells him.
But no ones tries to give Garner CPR or resuscitate him — not even the EMS workers who arrived at the scene 4 minutes later. One worker took his pulse, but no other aid was administered before he was put on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
Garner — who was 6-foot-5, weighed about 350 pounds and suffered from asthma — was suspected of illegally peddling cigarettes when cops approached him and put him into a chokehold while taking him into custody around 5 p.m. Thursday.
He died of cardiac arrest en route to the hospital.
Preliminary autopsy findings showed that Pantaleo did not damage Garner’s windpipe or neckbones when he put him into the chokehold.
But coroners are investigating whether the chokehold may have still caused his death by aggravating pre-existing health conditions such as asthma and obesity, sources have said.
Pantaleo has been placed on modified duty and stripped of his gun.
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