The mother of Eric Garner cheered the firing of Officer Daniel Pantaleo on Monday — and suggested that the out-of-work cop get a job flipping burgers.
“Pantaleo, you may have lost your job, but I lost a son,” Gwen Carr said outside NYPD headquarters. “You can get another job… maybe at Burger King.”
Police Commissioner James O’Neill fired the Staten Island officer Monday afternoon for using a department banned chokehold on 43-year-old Eric Garner during his July 17, 2014, arrest over the alleged sale of loose cigarettes.
O’Neill called the deadly encounter an “irreversible tragedy” and faulted both men in the incident.
Garner’s family and attorneys with the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board praised the commissioner’s move at the press conference.
“Thank you so much, Mr. O’Neill, for the courage you put forward today,” sister Ellisha Flagg-Garner said. “You set an example today. Officers that think they can do this crazy nonsense and get away with it, think again.
“It is not good to be on the force with this type of police officer. I’m glad this decision came out because now my cousin and my good friends can be a lot safer on the force and don’t have to worry about people being against them for [Pantaleo’s] negligence.”
Carr, though, said her fight wasn’t over — even after a five-year “disheartening process” — until justice is served to the other officers involved in Garner’s arrest.
“We have other officers we want to go after,” she said. “We know the wrongdoing they have done. New York is not safe with officers like that.”
Carr, who was joined by City Councilman Donavan Richards, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and CCRB liaison Jerika Richardson, as well as other city activist groups, brushed off Pantaleo’s expected appeal for reinstatement.
“I’m not worried about it,” Carr said. “I haven’t worried about it for five years.”
Pantaleo’s attorney, Stu London, told The Post after O’Neill’s decision that the officer will file suit to get his job back and recoup lost wages.