Sentences with phrase «chokehold police used»

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City Councilman Rory Lancman is backing a bill that would make the use of chokeholds by police a crime and there is now a push to make the grand jury minutes public.

A man's death after a possible police chokehold has prompted a sweeping review of the NYPD's use of force — with every officer set to be retrained and teams flown...

The use of chokeholds by police to restrain suspects should not be made illegal, even though they are «not an appropriate tool,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

The Nassau County Police Department's revamped use - of - force policy urges officers to use de-escalation methods rather than physical force, expands and tracks the incidents involving physical force reviewed by top brass and limits the use of the controversial chokehold.

The use of chokeholds to restrain police suspects should not be made illegal, even though they are «not an appropriate tool,» Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday.

(He's currently pushing two additional police accountability bills, barring chokeholds and requiring the NYPD to publish statistics on their use of force.)

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.

State Senator Bill Perkins pointed to a Daily News report showing the first reports filed by police higher - ups make no mention of a chokehold being used, or of Mr. Garner's distress.

Mr. Garner, 43, died after police used what appears to be a chokehold to bring him to the ground during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes.

Eric Garner's mother said Thursday if Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O'Neill really believe in transparency, the city would not have appealed a judge's ruling in favor of making public a summary of misconduct against the cop who used a chokehold on her son.

Mr. Garner, 43, of Staten Island, died after police used an apparent chokehold to take him to the ground during an arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes in Staten Island.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

A spokesman for de Blasio defended the mayor's opposition, arguing police should have discretion to use a chokehold in a potential life - or - death situation.

One of the blockaded measures is Lancman's proposal to illegalize the police chokehold, the maneuver Officer Daniel Pantaleo used to fatal effect on Garner.

Some, including Councilmembers Ydanis Rodríguez and Jumaane Williams, were arrested, and they charge that photographs and video show New York Police Department (NYPD) officers behaving aggressively and using excessive force — including a chokehold.

Donovan, a Republican, convened the grand jury that cleared Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who in July 2014 used a chokehold on her dad while trying to apprehend him.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

The NYPD and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determining how and when officers are held accountable for using prohibited chokeholds, according to a report released this past Monday by the city's new inspector general for police.

CITY HALL — Queens Councilman Rory Lancman said he introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for NYPD officers to use chokeholds after seeing a video of the deadly struggle between Staten Island man Eric Garner and police.

The report covered 10 cases between 2009 and 2014 where the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined officers used chokeholds, but the office delayed the release of their 34 - page report by three weeks after the shootings deaths of the two police officers in Brooklyn last month.

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.

Police unions have denied that a chokehold was used but the medical examiner said one of the causes of Garner's death was compression of the neck and chest.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would veto legislation that would make the use of chokeholds by police illegal, but the Queens councilman sponsoring the legislation said he may have enough votes to override the mayor's objection.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

We're talking about Bill de Blasio and the NYPD, now that the mayor has declared he plans to veto a bill that would criminalize the use of chokeholds by police, if it passes the City Council.

Mr. Garner, 43, died after police used an apparent chokehold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes.

Queens Councilman Rory Lancman's proposal to illegalize the use of police chokeholds — like the one that killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — has also gotten stalled in committee, despite enjoying the support of a majority of the Council's members.