A New York City police officer was suspended after a video posted online apparently made him unconscious a black man in a suffocation after the city council voted to make the police a crime for the police.
New York City police commissioner Dermot Shea called the arrest strangling incident “disturbing” and said the officer was suspended without pay on Sunday pending ‘a thorough investigation.
Police controls have increased across the country following the May 25 death of unarmed black man George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis. The video showed a white officer with his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes.
In a hearing on Monday on the use of force by New York police in recent street protests, Shea also criticized the insulting language used by the arrested man and two others who he said had insulted the police. police.
The officers involved displayed “extreme restraint” in the minutes before the apparent strangulation, said Shea.
Mayor Bill de Blasio found the officer’s response unacceptable, but told reporters that he was encouraged by the swift action taken against the officer, and because another officer on the scene intervened on his behalf. Stop.
“This represents the best of our police, without letting something like that happen,” said de Blasio.
Videos on cell phones and the police body camera showed that many police officers held the man on his stomach and a police officer wrapped his arm around his neck. The New York Police Department banned chokeholds in 1993.
The man was arrested for “disorder” and was hospitalized after briefly falling unconscious, according to his lawyers for Queens Defenders. They called the arresting officer to be prosecuted.
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