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'This shit is why I'm retiring in 7 months.'

NYPD sergeant Kizzy Adonis, one of the two police supervisors who responded to the arrest scene, has now pleaded guilty to a charge of failure to supervise and will lose 20 vacation days.

'The unintended consequence of Garner's death must have a consequence of its own.'

'I found [Pantaleo's] uncorroborated hearsay statements explaining his actions to be untruthful.'

The administrative judge found Daniel Pantaleo guilty of using an illegal chokehold, but not guilty of intentionally obstructing Eric Garner’s breathing, a source said.

'The idea all of us in the city, the leftist activists, have to waste time convincing the self-described progressive Bill de Blasio to fire the man that killed somebody on camera is patently absurd.'

'They’re blinging it out,' says Staten Island community organizer Dulce Rivera, pointing to a bodega that used to serve $3 breakfasts and is now bedecked with chandeliers. 'This is part of the package.'

'Lady justice has been choked like Eric Garner.'

'The primary duty of all members of the service is to preserve human life.'

Some Staten Island residents have positive things to say about their neighborhood officers. But they say trust won’t come unless there are consequences when things go wrong.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s lawyer told the judge that he couldn’t let his client testify because it might expose him to a federal criminal investigation.

'Justice delayed is justice denied.'