NYPD Supervisor Involved In Eric Garners Deadly Arrest Keeps Job, Loses Vacation Days

A sergeant with the New York Police Department accused of failing to adequately supervise the officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold before his death has made a deal with the department to lose 20 of her vacation days but keep her job.

Garners mother, Gwen Carr, said she was disgusted that Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, a 42-year-old veteran of the NYPD, had only received a slap on the wrist.

I am outraged and disgusted by how the de Blasio administration and the NYPD continue to show that they dont care about the murder of my son or black lives, Carr said in a statement.

Like Pantaleo, Sgt. Adonis, who oversaw arrest of #EricGarner, was protected by @NYCMayor & NYPD inaction & delays (charges against her were filed in 2016, but trial date never set) & now she walks, losing just 20 vacation days. Gwen Carrs full statement: https://t.co/6PqCIMmpWD pic.twitter.com/Fxo4Uwb46W

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Like Pantaleo, Sgt. Adonis, who oversaw arrest of #EricGarner , was protected by @NYCMayor & NYPD inaction & delays (charges against her were filed in 2016, but trial date never set) & now she walks, losing just 20 vacation days. Gwen Carrs full statement: https://t.co/6PqCIMmpWD pic.twitter.com/Fxo4Uwb46W
CPR Change the NYPD (@changethenypd) August 21, 2019

Adonis was one of two supervisors who initially responded to the scene of Garners 2014 arrest in Staten Island. Garner died after officer Daniel Pantaleo wrapped an arm around his neck. I cant breathe, Garner said repeatedly before his death.

Pantaleo was fired by the NYPD on Monday. His attorney said Pantaleo would appeal.

Adonis who was seen standing near Pantaleo in a video of the deadly arrest pleaded guilty this week to multiple departmental charges of failure to supervise during the encounter, The New York Times reported . Her case will reportedly be the last disciplinary action taken by the NYPD in connection with Garners death. The Times said that Adonis and Pantaleo would be the only two officers charged with breaking police rules in the Garner case, though more than a dozen officers had been involved.

Explaining why the NYPD had not fired Adonis, department sources told the New York Daily News that while Police Commissioner James ONeill had found the sergeants supervision during Garners arrest to be lacking in certain areas, he determined that nothing about her actions on that day either caused the use of the banned chokehold or delayed the arrival of medical attention for Mr. Garner.

NEW | Sergeant connected to Eric Garner's case will lose 20 vacation days.

Sgt. Kizzy Adonis supervision was lacking one said, but ONeill concluded nothing about her actions ... caused [the chokehold] ... or delayed ... medical attention.https://t.co/kIyLOgTJUG

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NEW | Sergeant connected to Eric Garner's case will lose 20 vacation days.

Sgt. Kizzy Adonis supervision was lacking one said, but ONeill concluded nothing about her actions ... caused [the chokehold] ... or delayed ... medical attention.https://t.co/kIyLOgTJUG
New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) August 21, 2019

The president of Adonis labor union, Ed Mullins, lambasted the departments decision to charge the officer, calling the move bullshit and political pandering to the anti-police rhetoric thats out there, New York Post reported.

City Council member Donovan Richards, whod previously called for all officers involved in Garners death to be held accountable, questioned why Adonis, who is Black, was singled out to face charges.

For the only person to be charged off of this besides Pantaleo to be a person of color certainly raises eyebrows, Richards told the Times.

Garners mother on Wednesday lambasted the way New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD had handled her sons case.

Its disgraceful that they waited more than five years, until after Pantaleo was fired, to cut [Adonis] a deal so that all shes facing is losing some vacation days and they want us to accept these crumbs as if there is some justice, Carr said.

By refusing to schedule a disciplinary trial for Adonis, de Blasio and the NYPD are actively participating in an ongoing cover-up because they dont want the public to know how deep, how wide and how high the wrongdoing in this case went, she added.

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