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CORRECTIONS

The Where We Live feature in

the Aug. 10 Real Estate section,

about the District’s Palisades

neighborhood, contained several

errors. The article said Rachel

Levey no longer lives in

Palisades. She lives there with

her husband and two children.

The article also incorrectly

reported that Levey, a Compass

real estate agent, sold a house on

Potomac Avenue for $3 million

to a couple who planned to raze

the structure and rebuild on the

site. No such sale took place.

Levey also said the wording of a

quote attributed to her was

incorrect and should have read,

“There are many families that I

meet who grew up in the

Palisades and have returned

when they were ready to raise a

family of their own. It is a unique

neighborhood where multi-

generations of a family

sometimes live within blocks of

each other.”

A July 11 Metro article about a

lawsuit filed against Marriott by

the District’s attorney general,

alleging that the company misled

guests about hotel room prices,

misstated an estimate by Jimmy

Rock, assistant deputy D.C.

attorney general, of how much

Marriott earned annually from a

practice known as “drip pricing,”

in which a room price is

advertised online and then other

fees are added once a consumer

has selected the room. The hotel

chain is believed to have earned

$100 million annually from the

practice, not $100,000.

A July 8 Metro article about

local fans inspired by the U.S.

women’s national soccer team

winning the Women’s World Cup

incorrectly said that the U.S.

women first won the tournament

in 1999. They first won the

Women’s World Cup in 1991, the

first year it was held.

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BY DEVLIN BARRETT

The New York Police Depart-

ment has fired the officer caught

on video with his arm around the

neck of 43-year-old Eric Garner

just before he died in 2014, cap-

ping a five-year legal saga over the

incident that fueled a movement

to change how police treat minori-

ties.

NYPD Commissioner James P.

O’Neill announced the decision

Monday, weeks after a departmen-

tal disciplinary judge recom-

mended the officer, Daniel Panta-

leo, be terminated. Pantaleo’s

union said they would try to over-

turn the decision.

“In this case the unintended

consequence of Mr. Garner’s death

must have a consequence of its

own,” said O’Neill. “It is clear that

Daniel Pantaleo can no longer ef-

fectively serve as a New York City

police officer.”

O’Neill called the decision “ex-

tremely difficult,” acknowledging

that the move probably would an-

ger rank-and-file officers. “If I was

still a cop, I’d probably be mad at

me,” he said.

On the video recording of Gar-

ner’s death, he is seen being

grabbed by officers and pulled

down to the sidewalk after he in-

sisted they should not arrest him

for allegedly selling loose ciga-

rettes. On the video, he can be

heard saying, “I can’t breathe,” and

his dying words became a rallying

cry for protests demanding chang-

es in police treatment of minori-

ties.

“Cops have to make choices,

sometimes very quickly,” said

O’Neill. “Those decisions are scru-

tinized and second-guessed, both

fairly and unfairly.... I can tell you

that had I been in Officer Panta-

leo’s situation, I may have made

similar mistakes.”

O’Neill said he reached two con-

clusions watching the video —

that Garner should not have re-

sisted, particularly given that

complying with the officers prob-

ably would have resulted in a sum-

mons, not arrest; and that Panta-

leo started the interaction using

approved techniques but then es-

calated to a prohibited chokehold.

“Today is a day of reckoning, but

it can also be a day of reconcilia-

tion,” the commissioner said.

The case sparked local and fed-

eral investigations, both of which

ended with no charges filed

against Pantaleo or the other offi-

cers involved.

Members of Garner’s family,

frustrated by the lack of criminal

charges, said they were pleased

the city had fired Pantaleo as they

had demanded but called for fur-

ther government action.

One of his daughters, Emerald

Garner, thanked the NYPD com-

missioner but said more needs to

be done, including reopening the

criminal investigation of her fa-

ther’s death and making police

chokeholds illegal to prevent simi-

lar incidents.

“It took five years for the officer

to be fired. I don’t want another

Eric Garner,” she said. “Yes, he’s

fired, but the fight is not over. We

will continue to fight.”

“We are relieved but not cele-

bratory,” said the activist Rev. Al

Sharpton, who supported the fam-

ily’s push for Pantaleo’s punish-

ment. “You cannot have a set of

rules for citizens and a different

set of rules for policemen. They

must follow the law and follow

policy.”

The union representing New

York officers, the Police Benevo-

lent Association, blasted the

NYPD’s decision and suggested its

members will have to shy away

from confrontations, making the

city less safe.

“The damage is already done.

The NYPD will remain rudderless

and frozen, and Commissioner

O’Neill will never be able to bring

it back,” said PBA President Pat-

rick J. Lynch. “We are urging all

New York City police officers to

proceed with utmost caution in

this new reality, in which they may

be deemed ‘reckless’ just for doing

their job.”

Patrick Yoes, national president

of the Fraternal Order of Police,

issued a scathing statement de-

claring that O’Neill had “caved to

political pressure” and warning of

lasting consequences.

Pantaleo’s attorney, Stuart Lon-

don, said his client, a 13-year vet-

eran of the NYPD, is disappointed

and upset about the decision but

plans to appeal it. “We are looking

for him to get his job back,” said

London.

Union officials said that NYPD

brass had been negotiating with

Pantaleo’s lawyers for him to re-

sign with vested pension benefits

as recently as late last week but

that police officials rescinded that

offer over the weekend.

“At that point, Pat and I realized

the writing was on the wall, that

they had been disingenuous when

they indicated to us that he would

receive a full pension,” said London.

New York City officials blamed

the Justice Department for the

long delay in reaching a decision

on Pantaleo’s job, saying they had

deferred to Washington, where

two administrations dithered on

reaching a conclusion in their fed-

eral civil rights investigation of

the incident.

“Today will not bring Eric Gar-

ner back,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio

(D). “But I hope it brings some

small measure of closure and

peace to the Garner family.”

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.),

chairman of the House Judiciary

Committee, said the Justice De-

partment had failed the Garner

family, and he pledged to keep the

issue alive by holding hearings

and seeking legislation “to

strengthen police-community re-

lations.”

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OHIO

Man denies making

threat to Jewish center

A 20-year-old man pleaded not

guilty Monday to threatening a

Jewish community center in a

video that authorities say showed

him shooting a semiautomatic

rifle.

A judge set bond at $250,

for James Reardon, ordered a

mental health evaluation and told

him to stay away from Jewish

organizations if he is released

from jail. He was arraigned by

video in the municipal court in

Struthers, near Youngstown.

Police arrested Reardon on

Saturday on charges of

telecommunications harassment

and aggravated menacing, a day

after a Jewish organization

contacted authorities.

Ammunition, semiautomatic

weapons, a gas mask and anti-

Semitic information were found

at a house in New Middletown

where he lives with his mother,

police said.

New Middletown police said

the video posted on Reardon’s

Instagram account last month

included the sounds of sirens and

screaming with the caption:

“Police identified the Youngstown

Jewish Family Community

shooter as local white nationalist

Seamus O’Rearedon.” The post

tagged the Jewish Community

Center of Youngstown.

The Youngstown Area Jewish

Federation said it found out about

the threat on Friday and alerted

the police and FBI. The

organization said it later learned

that “ira_seamus” was an online

pseudonym for James Reardon.

— Associated Press

NEW YORK

Proud Boys convicted

of attempted assault

Two members of the far-right

Proud Boys have been found

guilty of charges including

attempted gang assault for their

part in a melee that followed a

speech at New York’s

Metropolitan Republican Club.

A jury convicted Maxwell Hare

and John Kinsman on Monday in

connection with the October 2018

brawl between members of the

all-male Proud Boys and the

loosely organized anti-fascist

group known as Antifa.

Lawyers for Hare and Kinsman

said the men acted in self-

defense, but prosecutors said they

and other Proud Boys members

started the physical fight.

Manhattan District Attorney

Cyrus Vance Jr. said the

defendants beat four people “in a

brutal act of political violence.”

— Associated Press

CALIFORNIA

Jury will start again

in warehouse fire trial

A judge ordered jurors to

restart deliberations Monday in

the trial of two men charged with

involuntary manslaughter in the

deaths of 36 partygoers who died

in a fire inside a cluttered San

Francisco Bay-area warehouse.

The order to begin again came

after the judge dismissed three

female jurors for an undisclosed

reason on the 10th day of

deliberations.

Superior Judge Trina

Thompson excused the jurors and

replaced them with alternates at

the trial of Derick Almena and

Max Harris following a three-

month trial.

Thompson replaced the three

women with a woman and two

men, telling them to disregard all

past deliberations. She also

imposed a gag order preventing

attorneys from discussing the

case with reporters.

The Dec. 2, 2016, fire broke out

during an electronic music party

at an Oakland warehouse known

as the Ghost Ship, killing 36

people.

— Associated Press

DIGEST

EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island in May. Pantaleo’s firing comes weeks after a disciplinary judge

recommended he be let go over the 2014 death of Eric Garner. 
 For video, go to wapo.st/Garner0820.

Pantaleo terminated after

5-year fight over whether

he used a chokehold

VIRGINIA ZOO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Red panda triplets are introduced at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk.

The pandas — two males and a female — were born two months ago

and live in a climate-controlled den that’s out of sight from the public.

Defeat The Heat! Being Cold Gets Old! The zoo will auction off the right to name the cubs.

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