New York chokehold case: No charges against police officer

A grand jury in New York has declined to press criminal charges against a white police officer over the death of an unarmed black man he put into a chokehold - a practice banned by the New York police department.

The lawyer representing Eric Garner's family said he was ''astonished'' the grand jury had disregarded evidence of a video showing the chokehold, where Mr Garner, an asthmatic, is heard gasping that he cannot breathe.

Nick Bryant reports from New York.