The New York Police Department will revamp its training on the use of force amid outrage over the custody death of a man suspected of selling untaxed cigarettes, officials said Tuesday.

Police Commissioner William Bratton said the nation�s largest police force will receive additional instruction following the death last week of Eric Garner, who was asthmatic.

�The department needs to do a lot more in terms of training,� Bratton said at a news conference.

Garner�s arrest last week was captured on a widely distributed amateur video that appears to show an officer putting him in a banned chokehold after he refused to be handcuffed. As several officers take Garner down, he can be heard saying, �I can�t breathe. I can�t breathe.�

Autopsy results are pending in Garner�s death, which has sparked protests, a criminal probe and a warning by the Rev. Al Sharpton that Garner�s family would explore asking for a federal civil rights investigation. The family was to hold a candlelight vigil Tuesday night on the eve a funeral set for Wednesday.

The death has raised questions about the NYPD�s embrace of the �broken windows� theory of policing. Critics say the theory � that low-grade lawlessness such as drinking in public and making graffiti can invite greater disorder including traffic fatalities and violent crime � can needlessly put nonviolent people at risk and fuel tensions in the city�s minority communities.

Such enforcement �leads to confrontations like this,� City Councilwoman Inez Barron said Tuesday at a news conference about Garner�s death. Added City Councilman Andy King: �I don�t think it�s a necessary police tactic.�

Bratton vowed on Tuesday to stick with the program, saying the NYPD plans to next target illegal vendors who rent bikes in Central Park. He credited a similar crackdown on subway fare beaters in the 1990s with being the �tipping point� for a drastic reduction in overall crime in the subway trains.

�There�s no change in that focus at all,� Bratton said of broken windows. �That�s a key part of what we�re doing.�

(AP)