The sergeant who oversaw the arrest of Eric Garner will not face a departmental trial, but sources told NY1 that she will be docked vacation time.

 

Sources told us that NYPD Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, 42, will be docked 20 vacation days related to her conduct during the confrontation.

Police said Adonis had just been promoted and assigned to the 120th Precinct on Staten Island a week before Garner was killed in July 2014.

Officials said Police Commissioner James O'Neill evaluated Sgt. Adonis's supervision of officers under her command that day, and while he found it "lacking in certain areas, it didn't cause Daniel Pantaleo to use a banned chokehold, or delay the arrival of medical attention."

"I found that to be a reasonable decision," Charles McCray said.

"I think if she had fought it and gone there that it wouldn't have been favorable towards her anyway and the penalty probably would have been stiffer," Alicia Parker said.

McCray is the president of New York City Police Council of Retired Guardians. He, along with Parker, a retired NYPD lieutenant, said Adonis had the power to intervene.

"I think that if she had assessed the situation a little bit closer, she could have terminated it just on her command," McCray said.

"Any officer who was at the scene who sees something that's wrong should stop it, but a supervisor is mandated to do that," Parker said.

Garner died on Staten Island five years ago, after Pantaleo put him in a banned chokehold during an arrest attempt. Garner was suspected of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on the street.

While lying on the ground, Garner was heard saying "I can't breathe," which became a rallying cry for police reform activists around the United States.

The medical examiner ruled Garner's death a homicide caused by neck compression.

Pantaleo was fired from the department Monday. He is suing the NYPD to get his job back.

Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, said all of the officers involved in her son's arrest and death should lose their jobs.

The NYPD said Adonis had no prior disciplinary history and received positive evaluations in prior assignments.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, a supporter of Garner and his family, released a statement opposing the decision, saying, "If the penalty for not doing your job is that you can keep doing your job, it is an injustice to the family of Eric Garner and the residents of New York City."

Carr said she was "outraged and disgusted" by the deal but not surprised. She said it's a sign that Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department don't care about her son or other black men and women.

"It's disgraceful that they waited more than five years until after Pantaleo was fired to cut her a deal so that all she's facing is losing some vacation days, and they want us to accept these crumbs as if there is some justice," Carr said in a statement.

Adonis was charged under the department's disciplinary process in January 2016. She was not part of the team out investigating that day but heard the radio call and was nearby and responded to the scene.

Union officials from the Sergeant's Benevolent Association are planning to speak out on the disciplinary case against Adonis. President Ed Mullins promised to "address what really occurred in this extremely sensitive matter" at a news conference Thursday.

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Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.