Trial begins for police officer in Eric Garner's case in New York "Five years we've been on the front line trying to get justice, and they're still trying to sweep it under the rug" says Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died during an encounter with New York police in July 2014. She was speaking as a disciplinary trial got underway for the officer who's acccused of using a banned chokehold on Garner. \\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES