Sentences with phrase «police chokehold case»

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There was the Michael Stewart case - the black Graffiti Artist and model who died on a lower Manhattan subway platform from a chokehold and beating he received from several police officers.

On Jan. 7, 2016 after Mike McMahon was sworn in as DA, Judge McMahon handled the decision whether to allow video as evidence in the case against Ramsey Orta case (the man who filmed the Eric Garner police chokehold death).

The civil rights activist has served as a spokesman for the family of Garner — a 43 - year - old Staten Island man whose chokehold death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner following a July 18 attempt to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes — and is also heavily involved in the case of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo..

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.

(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.)

They echoed Mr. Schneiderman's concerns and lamented the outcome of the Garner case, where a white police officer was not indicted despite placing Garner, who was black, in an apparent chokehold that many say led to his death in July.

In this week's DecodeDC podcast, host Andrea Seabrook and Mother Jones reporter Dave Gilson recount the case of Adolph Lyons and the legal battle over race, police and chokeholds.