PREA applies to all federal, state, and local prisons, jails, police lockups, private facilities, and community settings such as residential facilities.
Eric Garner was not killed by police in New York City because he was black. He was killed by police in New York City for selling individual cigarettes to pedestrians in a city that has declared all-out war on smoking.
DNAinfo/Nicholas Rizzi. TOMPKINSVILLE â A man died after apparently being put in an illegal chokehold by a police officer while being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes outside a Stapleton shop Thursday afternoon, the NYPD said.