On October 25, 2016 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported the {{quotebox|"Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref>}} Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody in 2014. | On October 25, 2016 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported the {{quotebox|"Justice Department has replaced the New York team of agents and lawyers investigating the death of Eric Garner, officials said, a highly unusual shake-up that could jump-start the long-stalled case and put the government back on track to seek criminal charges."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/nyregion/justice-dept-replaces-investigators-on-eric-garner-case.html</ref>}} Garner was a black man arrested for selling cigarettes who died from a chokehold while in police custody in 2014. |