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It's been five years since Eric Garner yelled "I can't breathe" 11 times before dying on a concrete sidewalk outside of a Staten Island beauty supply store. Now, the officer involved will learn whether or not he will remain on the force.

According to reports, Daniel Pantaleo, now 33-years-old, faces charges of reckless use of a chokehold and intentional restriction of breathing. Stuart London, the police union lawyer representing Pantaleo, says the move administered on Garner wasn't a chokehold, but a technique taught at the police academy known as the seatbelt. London will also argue that the seatbelt maneuver isn't what caused Garner's death, but instead, his own poor health.

"Mr. Garner died from being morbidly obese," London said. "He was a ticking time bomb and set these facts in motion by resisting arrest."

The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide, something London will try to assert as false.

“Those who have been able to not come to a rushed judgment, but have looked at the video in explicit detail, see Pantaleo’s intent and objective was to take him down pursuant to how he was taught by NYPD, control him when they got on the ground, and then have him cuffed,” Mr. London said in an interview with the New York Times. “There was never any intent for him to exert pressure on his neck and choke him out the way the case has been portrayed.”

Following Garner's death, the city paid a $5.9 million settlement to Garner's surviving family member. However, Pantaleo still hadn't gone to trial. Greater urgency was taken when Garner's daughter, Erica, died in 2017. The viral video of Garner being taken down by police officers was filmed by his friend, Ramsey Orta. He will be one of the 20 witnesses called during the trial.

According to the New York Times, will have to answer two questions: Was the technique used on Garner a chokehold? and if so was Pantaleo justified in using the method?

“It was at least a dozen more who just did nothing, or either they pounced on him, they choked him, they filed false reports,” Mr. Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, said. “It’s about all of those officers who committed an injustice that day and they all need to stand accountable.”

A $1 million bond has been set for 26-year-old Derion Venice in the disappearance of 4-year-old Maleah Davis. According to reports, he was captured Saturday (May 11) at a relative's home and charged with "tampering with evidence, namely, a corpse." Law enforcement can't confirm is Maleah died, but they fear she isn't alive.

Maleah's mother Brittany Bowens left her daughter in Venice's care on April 30 to attend a funeral out of town. Surveillance video shows that was the last time the little girl was seen alive. Venice reappears on camera with Maleah escorting her back into her family's apartment complex.

The next morning, police say Venice wasn't seen with the child.

On May 3, Venice was seen leaving the apartment with his 1-year-old son, a laundry basket, and a black trash bag inside. Blood evidence from the apartment has been linked to the child.

Venice originally told police he was on his way to the airport with his son and Maleah when he pulled over on the side of the road to check his tires. He said he was approached by three Latino men who knocked him unconscious. When he came ton the side of Highway 6 near First Colony Mall he said his son was with him and not Maleah.

At this time, Bowens had another family member pick her up from the airport when Venice didn't arrive. Bowens said she filed a police report that Saturday morning after Venice.

"My spirit is so broken, I feel so lost. I can't concentrate, I can't focus. It's so overwhelming for me. It doesn't seem real," Bowens said.

Two students charged in the plan to orchestrate a shooting at Etowah High School had a racial and albeit motives, as new details in the case show.

Former students Alfred Dupree, 19, and Victoria McCurley, 18, pleaded guilty to six counts of attempted murder on Friday (May 10). The teens originally entered not guilty pleas in June 2018 after they were arrested for plotting the school shooting in 2017.

While some of the details of the case were sealed throughout the trial, prosecutors highlighted the teen's racial motive, plans to kill special education students and how they wanted to set a "record" for the mass shooting.

According to the Cherokee and Tribune Ledger News, Dupree and McCurley had five students and one teacher on their "kill list" found in a journal where they detailed their plan. Their writings included racial slurs with the reported intent to kill all of the school's black students with swastikas and slurs intended for people with disabilities.

Dupree and McCurley took both special education classes and regular classes. The names of the five students on their kill list were classmates in their special education classes.

The pair were arrested in October after a tip from a relative unveiled their "personal journal/diary, a homemade incendiary device, which was described as a flammable substance, and an undetermined powder (sic) substance," the Cherokee Sheriff's Office previously told Patch in January.

McCurley also told investigators on Friday the entire plan was a joke that later turned into a reality. “During the writing (of the pair’s attack plan), it wasn’t serious, but then it escalated to being serious,” she testified.

Meanwhile, Dupree mapped out his fascination with school shootings, noting how at 13/14, he became interested in the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. He also testified how he wanted to "get our numbers up higher than Las Vegas,” referring to the 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people and left 422 wounded.

In addition to using armed weapons, the teens also wanted to “throw explosives and smoke bombs at people inside.”

Their sentencing will take place today (May 13) before Cherokee County Superior Court Judge Ellen McElyea at 1:30 PM ET.