NYPD cop in chokehold case hopes Trump drops charges

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The New York Police Department policeman who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in July 2014 is hoping the Trump administration will drop the civil rights charges against him once President-elect Trump takes office next year.

NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo is “cautiously optimistic” that Trump will reverse the decision by Attorney General Loretta Lynch to renew efforts to bring civil rights charges against him, his lawyer told the New York Post.

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