Eric Garner’s daughter criticizes officials for waiting to show video of Tire Nichols’ arrest

Eric Garner’s daughter criticized Memphis officials for posting video of the arrest and beating of Tire Nichols “like a movie premiere,” likening it to a public lynching.

The set of videos was released on Friday and revealed how on January 7, before he died, the 29-year-old was electrocuted, pepper-sprayed and savagely beaten.

Emerald Snipes-Garner said she was furious it took so long for the videos to be released and compared the situation to her father’s death in 2014 when he was strangled to death by NYPD as he repeatedly said, “I can’t breathe.”

Esmeralda said NewsNation that if his father had gotten speedy justice, then Nichols would still be alive.

It comes as national condemnation has fallen on the officers who arrested Nichols, and Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. has issued a new internal investigation after suspending two officers who stood by while Nichols was arrested. writhed in pain.

She likened the situation to the 2014 death of her father, Eric Garner, who was suffocated to death in police custody when he said: “I can’t breathe.”

Speaking with Chris Cuomo at NewsNation, Emerald questioned why it took nearly three weeks to post the gruesome images.

“It had to be controlled by the system,” he said of the tapes. ‘Like, ‘we’re just going to hold him and then we’ll get him out with the charges.’

‘No, you held it up like it was a movie premiere that needed to be seen by the world. A public lynching.

He ultimately said that what happened to Nichols was a “replay” of his father’s death.

Garner was arrested in July 2014 for selling loose, duty-free cigarettes in the Staten Island NYPD district.

The officers, including Daniel Pantaleo, wrestled Garner against a glass store window, with Pantaleo placing his arm around Garner’s neck as other officers pinned him to the ground.

Video from a bystander showed Garner gasping the words “I can’t breathe” repeatedly before dying.

Following Garner’s death in July 2014, a Richmond County grand jury made the decision not to indict Pantaleo, and he remained on the force, behind a desk, until 2019, when he was finally fired.

In 2021, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court upheld the decision to fire Pantaleo, ruling that he acted “recklessly” by holding Garber in a prohibited choke hold for 9 to 10 seconds.

Noting that the process took years and that Pantaleo was never convicted in Garner’s death, Emerald said: “To me, it always has been, it’s a slap in the face.” There was no justice.

‘If we had had that in 2014, would there have been a Tire Nichols today? I do not think.

“And the fact that we’re waiting for this video to be released as if it were an exclusive movie that was due to be released on a certain day, it really makes my blood boil,” he told Cuomo.

Emerald claimed that Tire Nichols would still be alive today if Garner had been served justice.

Daniel Pantaleo (pictured), the NYPD officer responsible for choking Garner, was never charged in the incident and remained on the force until he was fired in 2019.

Along with Emerald’s criticism, conservative commentator Candace Owens also criticized the video’s treatment.

“Seems intentional that the media is creating days of suspense leading up to the release of the body cam by comparing him to Rodney King,” Owens wrote on Twitter, referencing the 1993 tape showing the LAPD brutally beating King.

The infamous video sparked mass protests across the country, including violent riots and clashes with police.

“They are fomenting riots,” he said. “They could have released the footage already, but they wanted to generate maximum suspense.”

Nichols died in hospital after he was electrocuted, kicked and punched in the head, struck three times with a metal baton and pepper sprayed twice in the face.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens also criticized the media’s treatment of the video as stage show.

Like the Garner and King videos, the video of Nichols’ arrest has sparked public outrage and sparked protests, some violent, across the country.

A protester was seen throwing fireworks at an LAPD cruiser during a large march in the city.

Meanwhile, in New York City, a man was photographed standing on the windshield of a wrecked police vehicle.

A protester was seen standing on a clearly vandalized front window of a police car in New York City.

The officers quickly dragged him downstairs and arrested him. At least three have been detained in the Big Apple as part of the protests, according to NBC New York.

Another stood over a police car with a tattered American flag. Antifa has issued a call to arms for protesters to light up New York City on Friday night.

In Memphis, protesters chanted: ‘Say her name! Shoot Nichols! and several dozen protesters blocked a busy bridge on Interstate 55, one of two main stretches connecting Arkansas and Tennessee over the Mississippi River.

Police officers detain a smiling protester who broke the window of a police car during the protest against the police assault on Tire Nichols in Times Square in New York, the United States, on January 27, 2023.

A protester was watching an LAPD cruise ship launch fireworks during a large march in the city.

In Memphis, protesters chanted: ‘Say her name! Shoot Nichols! and several dozen protesters blocked a busy bridge on Interstate 55, one of two main stretches connecting Arkansas and Tennessee over the Mississippi River.

The California and Hawaii unions issued a joint statement calling the officers’ actions “disgusting and the complete antithesis of how honorable law enforcement professionals behave.”

The California Prosecutors Alliance says the murder is senseless and in California’s capital Sacramento, Mayor Darrell Steinberg said: “I am filled with anger, sadness and revulsion.”

Businesses in several cities have been boarded up in anticipation of the release of the shocking images.

Workers are seen tackling buildings ahead of expected protests

Federal employees in Memphis and Portland were told to go home early, and workers began boarding up buildings.

On Friday night, the New York City mayor urged protesters to remain peaceful, and the NYPD has made extensive preparations, including asking officers to stay and work overtime when it ends. his turn on Friday.

As federal buildings had been evacuated, businesses in Memphis and Portland boarded up to protect themselves from expected looting.