A Staten Island grand jury cleared a NYPD police officer in the death of Eric Garner while he was held in a chokehold after being arrested for allegedly selling loose cigarettes, the New York Post's Larry Celona and two others reports. Garner's death was caught on a video that went viral and involved the same specter of white-officer brutality toward white men that the Michael Brown case has inspired. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito called for a Department of Justice investigation into the case.
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