NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says federal authorities will conduct a civil rights investigation into the July 17 death of a black man who was put into a chokehold by a New York city police officer who was trying to arrest him.
The man was selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. On Wednesday, a grand jury cleared the officer in the death of Eric Garner, triggering protests in the streets by hundreds of New Yorkers.
