Eric Garner Judicial Inquiry

Eric Garner judicial inquiry team: This team represented the family of Eric Garner and police reform advocates in a judicial inquiry seeking transparency regarding Mr. Garner’s arrest and death in 2014. The team co-counseled with civil rights lawyer Gideon Oliver and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, then the Co-Director of the New York Law School Racial Justice Project. During the inquiry—the first of its kind in 100 years—Davis Polk team members examined the police offers who were on the scene and senior city officials regarding Mr. Garner’s arrest and death, as well as New York City’s duty to investigate and discipline. This historic inquiry provided the opportunity to get answers to the many unanswered questions in Mr. Garner’s case, and also pushed for more transparency in policing generally.

This team includes counsel Gabriel Jaime-Bettan, Matt Kelly and Jim Windels, associates Erika Kargbo, Jennifer Kim, Meredith Manning, Jaclyn Willner, legal assistants Emily Turner, law clerk Nye Winslow, former associates Robert King and Abraham Moussako, former legal assistant Annie Farrell and former law clerk Madeleine Wykstra.