‘Hell No!’: Eric Garner’s Widow Rejects NYPD Officer Pantaleo’s Condolences

Esaw Garner, the widow of Eric Garner, said she will not accept Officer Daniel Pantaleo‘s condolences for the death of her husband.

In a statement released shortly after a grand jury decided to not indict him, Pantaleo said he felt “very bad” about Garner’s death and said he hopes Garner’s family will accept his personal condolences. When asked at a press conference Wednesday night if she accepts those condolences, Garner’s widow was unequivocal: “Hell no!”

“The time for remorse would have been when my husband was yelling to breathe,” she said. “That would have been the time for him to show some type of remorse or some type of care for another human being’s life, when he was screaming 11 times that he can’t breathe, so there’s nothing that him or his prayers or anything else that would make me feel different.”

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