The Daily News reports that Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Gregory Meeks and Yvette Clark called Thursday for the U.S. Department of Justice to open investigations into both the controversial tactic of aggressively enforcing low-level offenses to prevent more serious ones — a cornerstone of NYPD policing — and the July 17 death of the Staten Island… Continue reading Members of Congress Call for Federal Investigation into Eric Garner’s Murder
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Woman 7 Months Pregnant and In Her Very Own Police Chokehold
Welcome to the New York, where the police officers are called “the finest in the world,” but they still resort to the tried and proven primitive method of choking people inorder to restrain them. After a Staten Island man named Eric Gardner, lost his life to an illegal cholehold administered by a police officer, other… Continue reading Woman 7 Months Pregnant and In Her Very Own Police Chokehold
More Police Brutality – Another Man, Another Chokehold in New York – Video
Now that a NYPD officer has succeeded in using an illegal chokehold to choke a Staten Island man to death, other videos are surfacing online showing that although the chokehold is prohibited by the New York police department, it is apparently used more often than not. According to NBC New York, the subway arrest video was… Continue reading More Police Brutality – Another Man, Another Chokehold in New York – Video