Eric Garner

NEW YORK (AP) -- Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe," it means he could breathe.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, citing his background as a prosecutor, is declining to criticize a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to bring an indictment in the death of Eric Garner, a man suspected of selling loose cigarettes.

Speaking his mind has always been “Sir Charles’” stock in trade. And on the subject on race in America, and in the wake of the recent grand jury findings in both Missouri and New York, he’s had plenty to say. For instance, last week he referred to the rioters that had set Fergurson, Missouri ablaze as “scumbags...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The widow of Eric Garner says that from the beginning she's had no faith in prosecutors on Staten Island, the borough where a police officer placed her unarmed husband in a chokehold that resulted in his death.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a lawyer for the victim's family said.

The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer who applied the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

In the wake of the decision by a grand jury in Missouri not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown comes a decision by a Staten Island grand jury investigating the death of resident Eric Garner while being arrested for selling loose cigarettes...

NEW YORK (AP) -- About 100 protesters have been marching through midtown Manhattan, tying up evening rush-hour traffic.