Sentences with phrase «illegal police chokeholds»
It has also been a year since Queens Councilman Rory Lancman proposed a new law that would make illegal police chokeholds like the one that killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — a proposal with 27 co-sponsors of its own.
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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 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.
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.
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.
New York city police officer Daniel Pantaleo faced indictment over the death of Eric Garner, who died after Pantaleo applied what some are calling an illegal chokehold manoeuvre.