NYPD officer Justin D'Amico's home address tweeted by Erica Garner on Christmas Day 2014

What happened

On December 25, 2014, Erica Garner shared a tweet that linked to a web page listing the home address of NYPD officer Justin D'Amico. D'Amico initiated the July 2014 arrest of her father, Eric Garner, in Staten Island; Eric Garner died during that arrest. The linked page also listed addresses for five people identified as possible D'Amico relatives. The New York Post reported the post was shared more than 500 times before Garner deleted it.

Garner and her family's lawyer said she did not know what the linked page contained and that she never opened it. The NYPD said it was reviewing the post. Erica Garner died in December 2017.

This page documents the doxxing event. It does not take a position on the underlying 2014 arrest, the grand-jury outcome, or the federal civil-rights review that followed. Those have been reported extensively elsewhere.

How it started

The address did not require any special access. Officer D'Amico's name was already public: it appeared in court filings, civil-suit documents, and news coverage of the 2014 arrest. Converting that name into a current home address took a query against a people-search site, the kind that compiles voter rolls, property records, and other public sources into one profile.

The tweet linked to such a page. Along with D'Amico's address, the page listed five people identified as possible relatives, each with an address. People-search sites list relatives next to the searched person by default; the relative field is part of how these profiles are built. It is the same field that exposes families of officers when someone runs a lookup by name.

Why this case matters

The 2014 Garner tweet is one of the earliest documented cases of social-media-amplified officer doxxing tied to a high-profile police-killing case. The sequence is straightforward: a name surfaces in a case that draws attention, someone runs a broker lookup, and the address is republished to a large audience within minutes.

The relative listings are the detail worth noting. A single search on one officer returned addresses for five people connected to him. That is the family exposure that follows any sworn officer, deputy, prosecutor, or judge whose name enters a news cycle, regardless of the merits of the case that put the name there.

What this means for you

If your name appears in a high-attention case, whether you are an NYPD officer or work anywhere else in the field, this timeline is a reasonable guide to what follows. The trigger is public attention, and the address comes from commercial people-search sites. A search on your name can also return addresses for the people around you on the same result.

New York does not have a law comparable to New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets officers, judges, and their families require data brokers to remove their home addresses. New York also has no enacted law that lets a resident force a broker to delete their data; the proposed New York Privacy Act was still in committee as of late 2025. For now, the practical step is removing the listings from the commercial sites that resell a home address by name, for the officer and for the people in the household.

For more on how relative listings expose a household, see family targeting and how officer families get exposed.