NYPD officer in Eric Garner case fired

Our live coverage of the NYPD's decision to fire officer Daniel Pantaleo is wrapping up. You can read more here.

Here's what you need to know about today's decision:

Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr said that while it’s been disheartening to go through this process, she’s not finished.

“We have other officers that we have to go after. You have heard the names. We know the wrongdoing that they have done,” Carr said, referring to other officers at the scene when her son died. “So I would like the press to put it out there, show the pictures, say the names, do the roll call because they all need to lose their jobs.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, is weighing in on today's decision to fire officer Daniel Pantaleo from the New York City Police Department.

Nadler said the decision to terminate Pantaleo, who is accused of fatally choking Eric Garner in 2014, shouldn't have taken so long.

Nadler added that the House Judiciary Committee would hold hearings and consider legislation to "strengthen police-community relations."

Read his full statement:

Daniel Pantaleo's attorney Stuart London said that he received a call notifying him that Pantaleo was being fired "about 13 minutes" before the NYPD police commissioner made the public announcement.

London, speaking at a press conference today, said that he passed the information onto Pantaleo.

"Obviously he is disappointed, upset," London said about Pantaleo's reaction. "But he has a lot of strength."

London said that Pantaleo will file an Article 78 in court to appeal the decision by the commissioner to terminate him.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of National Action Network, vowed to push for congressional hearings and a law to prevent chokeholds.

Sharpton, speaking at a news conference alongside two of Eric Garner's children, said they will be asking the state to make the use of chokeholds illegal.

Sharpton vowed to call on Congressman Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to investigate Garner's death.

"We continue to call for Congressman Nadler who committed congressional hearings to move forward," he said. "We need to investigate why the federal government around the country, including Eric Garner, decide not to bring cases in a federal court and let a jury decide whether or not Garner had 10,000 cigarettes. Let a jury decide whether his civil rights was (sic) violated and whether or not the police operated in a manner that robbed him of his civil rights. And the same should be of other cases around the country which is why the Judiciary Committee ought to have those public hearings starting in New York.”

Earlier in the news conference, Garner's daughter Emerald Garner vowed to push for "the Eric Garner law," which she said will ban chokeholds and "ban officers being protected by a shield and not held account for their actions."

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is also running for president, said "justice has been done" following the firing of police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is accused of fatally choking Eric Garner in 2014.

He said the long process has put the Garner family through "so much agony for so long."

"I hope today brings some small measure of closure," de Blasio said. "Today will not bring Eric Garner back, but I hope it brings some small measure of closure and peace to the Garner family."

Eric Garner's daughter Emerald Garner vowed to continue to fight for justice following the tragic death of her father.

"I don't even want to see another video of a person being choked out. Because it wasn't supposed to happen to him. It's not supposed to happen. I should not be here standing with my brother, fatherless. I should be standing here with my father. But Pantaleo took that away from me on 7/17. Yes, he's fired. But the fight is not over. We will continue to fight."

She also thanked NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill for his decision to fire Pantaleo.

"I thank you for doing the right thing," Emerald Garner said.

A detailed report from NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado on the death of Eric Garner found officer Daniel Pantaleo had committed "grave misconduct."

The report states "the use of the chokehold fell so far short of the objective reasonableness that this tribunal found it to be reckless — a gross deviation from the standard of conduct established for a New York City police officer. Moreover, respondent’s glaring dereliction of responsibility precipitated a tragic outcome.”

The report concluded that “there is only one appropriate penalty for the grave misconduct that yielded and equally grave result, respondent can no longer remain a New York City police officer.”

CNN obtained the report, which was issued earlier this month after the conclusion of an NYPD trial into Pantaleo's conduct. The report was obtained from a source familiar with the matter.

What we know about Maldonado decision: Pantaleo faced two charges during his departmental trial: use of a chokehold and restricting breathing. Maldonado mulled over the circumstances surrounding both charges for her ruling since the final day of deliberation in June.

As part of her ruling, Maldonado had to review the footage of Garner’s arrest in very fine detail. She focused in on the moments after Pantaleo takes down Garner. Pantaleo is seen on Garner’s back with one arm wrapped around his neck when he brings his other arm around and clasps them together, locking in the hold.

Pantaleo was trained not to use chokeholds while he was a rookie in 2006, according to the source. And Maldonado felt Pantaleo’s use of the move was both reckless and she states, “respondents egregious misconduct led to the deadly consequences his training anticipated and which the prohibition was designed to prevent.”

During the departmental trial, lawyers for Pantaleo argued that Garner’s neck was in the crook of his elbow and there was no pressure on his windpipe but rather on the sides of his neck, constituting a sleeper hold. Despite this, Maldonado ruled that while he was on top of Garner, he could have used a different tactic, not one that was banned by the NYPD.

But despite Maldonado’s ruling on Pantaleo’s use of the chokehold, she found that he was not guilty of restricting Garner’s breathing. The second charge had more to do with intent, meaning there needed to be clear intent to prevent someone from breathing in order for the charge to stick. But since Pantaleo made other attempts to subdue Garner with other NYPD approved tactics before the chokehold was applied, such as an arm bar, Maldonado ruled that it wasn’t Pantaleo’s goal to stop Garner from breathing.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill used this report as a guideline when making his decision to fire officer Pantaleo, which he announced at a news conference this afternoon.

The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, a police union that represents nearly 50,000 active and retired NYC police officers, has put out a statement on the dismissal of Daniel Pantaleo.

PBA President Patrick Lynch said that Commissioner James O’Neill has “chosen politics and his own self-interest over the police officers he claims to lead.”

Here is the union's full statement: