Sentences with phrase «ban police chokeholds»

Advocates have pressured Mayor Bill de Blasio to fire Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer involved in Garner's death, and to criminally ban police chokeholds.

With protests breaking out around the country against police brutality, Hakeem Jeffries introduced a bill to ban police chokeholds, the irresponsible practice which led to the death of Eric Garner last year.

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Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

He has co-sponsored legislation to overhaul mandatory minimums for certain drug crimes, and has introduced a bill banning the use of chokeholds by the police.

The mayor forcefully denounced anti-police rhetoric espoused by some activists who were planning protests, and said he would veto a City Council bill to criminally ban the use of chokeholds by police officers.

MIDTOWN — Police officers were quick to use banned chokeholds during arrests and discipline was lax and inconsistent for those found to have used the technique, according to the first report by the NYPD's inspector general.

CITY HALL — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday he would not support a law to make chokeholds — the banned NYPD tactic that the medical examiner says helped cause the death of Staten Island man Eric Garner — illegal, insisting that a departmental prohibition is enough.

In New York last summer, Eric Garner died after being placed in a banned chokehold by a police officer.