Eric Garner Case: A New Day at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board

For years, the NYC governmental agency was known simply as “CCRB.”

The reputation of CCRB, which handles Police misconduct complaints was not exactly known for its success rate. Such public complaints against Police Officers, were almost always unsubstantiated. But that was then. That was before the Eric Garner Case. Garner, the victim of an illegal barred chokehold of now-fired Officer Daniel Pantaleo.

On the video that has gone around the world, Garner is heard saying 11 times, ”I can’t breathe.”

CCRB Executive Director Jonathan Darche and CCRB Senior Advisor Jerika Richardson

It was CCRB, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, that prosecuted Pantaleo in the departmental trial. The Staten Island Grand Jury declined to indict Officer Pantaleo…and the Feds passed on a possible civil rights violation case.