Arts
Roee Messinger’s new film “American Trial: The Eric Garner Story” is an unscripted courtroom drama imagining the trial that never happened involving Daniel Pantaleo, an NYPD officer videotaped administering a fatal chokehold on Staten Island resident Eric Garner in 2014. The video, in which Garner repeatedly called out “I can’t breathe!” has become a rallying cry against police brutality and the murder of unarmed black people at the hands of law enforcement. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, Eric Garner’s widow Esaw Snipes-Garner, who appears in the film, joins director Roee Messinger and executive producer Ralph Richardson for a conversation about "American Trial" and the horrific events that inspired it.