A New York City police administrative judge has now said that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for his role in the 2014 death of Eric Garner. This decision has the potential to bring about a real reversal of inaction and help a grieving family find some small sense of long-overdue justice.

It should be again made clear that there really is no debate about Pantaleo's actions, there is a video that shows him strangling Eric Garner to death with an illegal chokehold in the street. Where I come from, that makes him a murderer.

The question that is being tried, that a judge has now provided an answer to, is whether or not there are consequences when the police kill.

Seemingly unbelievably there are two sides to this debate. Well, maybe not so unbelievably. After all, the president of this country did proclaim to the world that there were fine people on "both sides" when Nazis marched and killed a woman on the streets of Charlottesville.

Eric Garner's daughter, Emerald Snipes Garner, made her position very clear by caustically telling the New York Times. "[After the judge's recommendation] finally, somebody has said that there's some information that this cop has done something wrong."

However, Patrick Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, sees the world completely differently.

He told the Times, "This decision is pure insanity. If it is allowed to stand it will paralyze the NYPD. for years to come."

The fact of the matter is that Lynch is right. As of now, a fair assessment of the law in New York is that it does not apply to the men in blue. Firing Pantaleo is pure insanity under that logic. So, of course, that is what Lynch is going to say.

The Police Commissioner James O'Neill is going to make his decision soon. He gets to decide whether or not the government is allowed to kill black people. There is likely to be major pressure from the police to allow Pantaleo to stay on. O'Neill is a cop, cops usually stick together. Really that is just the basic tendency of people trying to protect themselves from consequences.

If it were up to me, Pantaleo would have been fired the day after the video emerged. But it's not up to me. It's up to the cops, they get to decide. So even though he won't read this, I'd like to say a few words to O'Neill.

Mr. O'Neill, fire this murderer.

Don't do it for me. Don't do it because it's right.

Don't do it out of fear of backlash. Do it for Erica and Emerald Garner. Do it for Ben and Gwenn Carr.

Do it even if you don't care that two of those four people have died.

Fire Pantaleo. Haven't they suffered enough?