Garner-probe judge: DeB, tops cops don’t have to testify

Mayor de Blasio and top NYPD officials will not have to testify in a judicial inquiry into how the city handled the 2014 police-custody death of Eric Garner, a judge ruled Friday.

Garner’s relatives and civil-rights activists had sought to have de Blasio, former Police Commissioners James O’Neill and Bill Bratton, and current Commissioner Dermot Shea testify to learn if they properly probed the death.

But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Erika Edwards denied the request — as well as one seeking testimony from other city officials, including two deputy mayors and a pair of deputy commissioners, as well as the EMTs involved in the fatal Staten Island encounter.

Garner, 43, died after being put in a chokehold, eventually suffering a fatal asthma attack.