No federal charges in NYPD chokehold
NEW YORK — After years of silence, federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they won’t bring criminal charges against a white New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man whose dying words — “I can’t breathe” — became a national rallying cry against police brutality.
Civil rights prosecutors in Washington had favored filing criminal charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, but Attorney General William Barr sided with other federal prosecutors based in Brooklyn who said evidence, including a bystander’s widely viewed cellphone video, wasn’t sufficient to make a case, a Justice Department official told The Associated Press.
The Rev. Al Sharpton renewed his calls for the New York Police Department to fire the 34-year-old Pantaleo, who’s been on desk duty since Garner’s death and is awaiting the results of a disciplinary hearing that could lead to his firing.
Migrants might be turned away
TIJUANA, Mexico — Hundreds of immigrants showed up at border crossings Tuesday in hopes of getting into the U.S. but faced the likelihood of being turned away under a new Trump administration asylum rule that upends long-standing protections for people fleeing violence and oppression in their homelands. The policy went into effect Tuesday but drew a swift lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Man charged in scientist’s murder
ATHENS, Greece — A 27-year-old man was charged with murder and rape Tuesday in the killing of American scientist Suzanne Eaton, who disappeared on the Greek island of Crete and whose body was found in a tunnel used as a storage site during World War II. Crete police said a Greek man from the island confessed to the “violent criminal act.” He was not named in accordance with Greek law.