DOWNTOWN: Beep, NYPD union in tiff over bringing up Garner killing at tree lighting

Feel the beat: Borough President Adams, right, looks on as Brooklyn United Marching Band drummer Royal Allah sounds 11 beats to mark Eric Garner's death, and one for each police officer who died this year. Borough President Adams butted heads with a police union rep on Monday over a plan to use the Borough Hall Christmas-tree lighting to commemorate the death of Gowanus native Eric Garner at the hands of officers.

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