WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that he's launching a civil rights investigation into the chokehold death of Eric Garner following a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who killed him.
"The Justice Department will proceed with a federal civil rights investigation of Mr. Garner's death," Holder announced, saying it will be "independent, thorough, fair and expeditious."