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Protesters marked the anniversary of Garner's death, five years ago Wednesday, with a demonstration in downtown Manhattan that drew several hundred people.

"I'm not saying he intentionally did that, but that's where his arms are," Dee testified as the video played of Pantaleo grabbing Garner and wrestling him to a Staten Island sidewalk in July 2014 .

A long-delayed internal disciplinary trial that could lead to Pantaleo's firing is slated to begin on Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has refused to release secret testimony heard by a grand jury that declined to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is urging his employees who attend a slain officer's wake and funeral to refrain from making political statements.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two Chipotle chief executives have apologized to New York City police officers who were greeted by a restaurant employee making the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture popular with protesters.

NEW YORK (AP) — The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere — and the investigations and tumultuous protests they inspired — was the top news story of 2014, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

A timeline of events in the hours before and moments after two New York Police Department officers were killed in their cruiser Saturday by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a 28-year-old man who vowed online to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner:

BERKELEY, CA (AP) — Hundreds of protesters are blocking a major highway and train tracks in the latest demonstration in Northern California against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.

DENVER (AP) — Denver's mayor says he is proud of students who have staged protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner but now he's urging them to stay in school.