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Judge Denies Bid by Mayor, NYPD To Block Inquiry Into Garner Death

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 12/30/20

A State Supreme Court Justice has turned back an effort by city officials to slow an inquest into what they knew leading up to and following the death of Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD. 

Lawyers for Mayor de Blasio, former NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill and others had argued that their appeal of the Justice’s September order compelling them to testify in a so-called judicial inquiry brought by Mr. Garner’s mother and other litigants should result in an automatic stay. 

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