Police commissioner James O’Neill’s announced at a midday news conference that he had fired officer Daniel Pantaleo.

Videos taken by bystanders showed Garner crying out “I can’t breathe” at least 11 times before he fell unconscious.

Bill de Blasio on "Fire Pantaleo" chants: "I heard you. I saw you. I thank you."

The decision to end a yearslong civil rights investigation was made by Attorney General William Barr and was announced the day before the five-year anniversary of the deadly encounter

Erica Garner, the daughter of key Black Lives Matter figure Eric Garner, died Saturday after a weeklong hospital stay following a heart attack.

The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white police officer's chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death.

A white Cleveland patrolman who fired down through the windshield of a suspect's car at the end of a 137-shot barrage that left the two unarmed black occupants dead was acquitted Saturday of criminal charges.

Nine months and $115 million later, the previously little-known disease of ALS has been talked about around the world.

Speakers honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday at his spiritual home in Atlanta repeated the same message: We've come a long way, but there's still a lot left to be done.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was "disrespectful" for some New York Police Department officers to turn their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.