The death of Eric Garner has reverberated throughout the city, and on Staten Island, it has divided voters. NY1′s Courtney Gross filed the following report on an exclusive poll examining Garner’s death and the investigation surrounding it.
The block where Eric Garner died was quiet on Wednesday. A memorial is still there in his memory, with small candles snuffed out.
Two months after Garner was put in a chokehold by the New York City Police Department during his arrest, the issue is still dividing the voters of the 11th congressional district, a district that encompasses all of Staten Island and part of Brooklyn.
According to an exclusive NY1/Capital New York/Siena College poll, 88 percent of likely voters have paid a great deal or some attention to the Eric Garner issue. Just 10 percent have ignored it. (The poll has a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.)
Those voters are split on whether the police acted appropriately.
“It’s difficult to view the video and not think that excessive force was applied, and yet, there’s always two sides to everything,” said poll participant Kent Roberts.
“They had to make the arrest, and what was the cop to do, go back to the station and say the man wouldn’t allow him to arrest him?” said poll participant Peter Clench.
View the full results and methodology for the NY1/Capital New York/Siena College poll on the Eric Garner case.
Twenty-four percent said the police acted appropriately, 37 percent said the police acted inappropriately and 38 percent said they did not have enough information.
“What we see is that more voters in the 11th CD think that the New York Police Department, in this particular case, acted inappropriately rather than acted appropriately,” said Steve Greenberg, a Siena College pollster.
Since the incident, members of the city’s congressional delegation have called for the U.S. attorney general to step in and take over the investigation.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan is currently heading up a grand jury investigation.
Our poll shows that the vast majority of voters here have complete confidence in Donovan to handle the job. Sixty-nine percent said they were very or somewhat confident in him, while 17 percent said they were not. Fourteen percent did not know.
For now, it’s unclear when this investigation will be complete. When NY1 reached out to the Staten Island district attorney’s office, a spokesman wouldn’t comment.
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