Bronx Cop Indicted for Banned Chokehold Has History of Choking and Assault Cases
Originally reported by THE CITY – NYC News — 2024-08-09
A police officer who was allowed to keep his job after putting a bystander in a chokehold in 2017 was indicted by the Bronx district attorney on Thursday for allegedly using the same potentially deadly tactic once again — this time in an incident where the person passed out. DA Darcel Clark’s office said Officer Omar Habib is the first cop in the borough to be charged under a new law banning chokeholds passed by the City Council in July 2020 — just a few weeks after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The statute makes it a misdemeanor for police to compress a person’s windpipe, carotid arteries or diaphragm in the course of making an arrest. The law faced years of legal challenges by the city police officers union and other law enforcement unions but was affirmed by the New
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