| Greetings, TicToc readers! End your day smarter with our Monday debrief: But first...  Pantaleo fired for 2014 Garner death More than five years after Eric Garner's death, the officer accused of causing it was fired from the NYPD. Commissioner James O'Neill announced that Daniel Pantaleo had broken department rules when he put Garner in an illegal chokehold in 2014 and could "no longer effectively serve as a New York City police officer." Pantaleo's dismissal marks the end of a yearslong campaign calling for his termination, and it's a decisive moment in the Black Lives Matter movement that kept alive Garner's dying words of "I can't breathe" as a rallying cry in the national debate over race and use of force by police. Highly quotable "I am sorry for the harm I have caused." Elizabeth Warren apologized directly to Native Americans for her past claims of Native heritage. "Cruel reality of occupation." Rep. Ilhan Omar told colleagues to visit Israel in face of the block on her and Rep. Rashida Tlaib to "see the things we were going to see." "No reasonable alternative." California enacted a law to limit lethal force by police to only when necessary to defend against the risk of death. $ignificant figures $577 million: How much Jeffrey Epstein said he had in assets that were put in a trust, according to a will he wrote two days before his suicide. 500 million: The number of bees in Brazil that have dropped dead so far in 2019 due to heavy pesticide use in the country's agriculture. 936: The number of accounts Twitter deleted that originated within China and attempted to manipulate and undermine the Hong Kong protests.  Gone but not forgotten Iceland's Okjökull glacier. Officials, activists and lots of kids bade farewell to the country's first glacier lost to climate change. Thailand's famous dugong. 8-month-old Marium, who charmed millions after conservationists rescued her, died from ingesting ocean plastic.  What's good One step closer. Zoos and circuses in the U.S. and China may soon be barred from buying African elephants that have been captured in the wild. A majority of countries at a UN wildlife conference backed a proposal to end the practice that environmentalists say "rips them from their families." Supporters of the proposal hailed the vote as "remarkable recognition that elephants don't belong in the entertainment industry."  Like what you're reading? Tell your friends to sign up. And watch your inbox for our next newsletter tomorrow.
-Andrew Mach | 
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