A Year After Eric Garner’s Murder, Still No Justice On July 17, 2014, the life of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six from Staten Island, N.Y., came to a horrific end in a matter of seconds—death by police chokehold. Plainclothes officers had approached Garner to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes. When Garner objected to being arrested, Officer Daniel …