On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old NY resident, was confronted by the NYPD for allegedly selling “untaxed” cigarettes.
That confrontation resulted in Garner’s death after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo put the man in a chokehold.
Chokeholds are restraining maneuvers that cut off the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain. Due to the rising numbers of deaths of suspects in police custody, the NYPD was banned from using the move back in the early 1990s.
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