Repeal of shield law reveals sordid past of cop whose chokehold led to Eric Garner’s death

Long before Garner died on a Staten Island street, and uttered the movement-launching words, “I can’t breathe,” the officer leading his arrest, Daniel Pantaleo, had been the subject of several complaints, including one for which he was docked two vacation days as punishment for a June 2012 stop and frisk incident, according to city records that’ve just become available, the Associated Press reported.