It’s called reckless endangerment and all a majority on the grand jury would have needed to do is agree that Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s actions — clearly visible on a horrific cell phone video obtained by The Daily News — figured in Garner’s death.
But they never got the chance.
“District Attorney Daniel Donovan only asked grand jurors to consider manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges,” WNBC reported Friday.
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