Posted on 06/25/2020 1:30:51 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
A veteran NYPD officer surrendered to authorities Thursday for using an illegal chokehold on a man during a caught-on-video Queens boardwalk arrest, the first cop busted under a new state law barring the potentially lethal tactic, officials said.
Officer David Afanador, suspended without pay shortly after the Sunday incident, was charged with strangulation and attempted strangulation at a Queens Criminal Court appearance. The officer, who was released without bail, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
“The arrest ... is the first step in getting justice,” said attorney Sanford Rubenstein, who represents victim Ricky Bellevue. “The next step is for the officer to be convicted and sentenced to jail.”
Rubenstein released a photo of Bellevue’s head Thursday showing a wound allegedly inflicted by the officer during the Rockaway Beach confrontation that left his client unconscious.
The state’s newly-passed Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act, named for the Staten Island man killed by a police chokehold six years ago, makes use of the banned move a felony in New York.
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There should be a blue flu in NYC.
When we carried Sap’s and Baton’s, this chit didn’t happen.
There were rumors of a blue flu scheduled for the afternoon of July 4th.
That’d be huge.
If a cop can get seven years for this then a punk caught using a gun to commit a crime should be executed on the spot.
Fair is fair.
You couldn’t pay me enough to ever have to deal with the likes of the “show my underwear” club.
There are going to be POLICE OFFICER DEATHS resulting from this stupid prohibition. This policy is equal in STUPIDITY to the removal of police from schools that is starting up.
wait — that one white dude filming w/ his cell phone has his pants falling down his ass — but is using a belt. Kinda defeats the purpose of the “fashion.”
Someone please help him correct this cultural appropriation.
The inmates are running the asylum.
They obviously forgot to include in the bill the provision that the revolving door only applies to black suspects. Everyone else needs to put up bail money.
THIRTY-FIVE MINUTE VIDEO!
I need Jane Goodall to properly interpret this properly.
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