Chokehold

Emery Snipes was stopped by NYPD officers for riding the bike against traffic and entering a park after dark in lower Manhattan.

NewsOne’s Top 5 takes a quick look at the stories trending on NewsOne.com that you are talking about. Cops Reportedly Use Banned Chokehold on Ex-Marine…

Even though Eric Garner’s case brought attention to cops using banned chokeholds on individuals that they arrest, there reportedly are still police officials who are…

The City of New York has agreed to pay the family of Eric Garner $5.9 million to settle a claim over his killing in New York City's Staten Island borough one year ago on Friday.

The New York Police Department officer cleared in Eric Garner’s chokehold death is being sued over a 2010 car crash that left a man with…

  Eric Garner’s 19-year-old son spoke about his father’s death during a recent CNN interview. Eric Garner Jr. said that he’s proud of the peaceful protests happening in New York City and across the country in the wake of his father’s death. “It makes me feel proud because I don’t have to share this moment […]

Another Black life lost, another White police officer gets away with murder. Daniel Pantaleo, the Staten Island police officer responsible for forcibly putting 43-year-old Eric…

Nearly a week after fallout from a grand jury’s decision in the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a panel in…

  As if police brutality across the country wasn’t already at a fever pitch, the number of chokehold complaints the New York Police Department (NYPD)…

  A New York City police officer put a seven-months-pregnant woman in a chokehold after a dispute over illegal grilling in Brooklyn, NY. For more…

News of the fatal police encounter that led to Eric Garner’s death went viral with help of a video recording. That video was taken by Ramsey…

  An NYPD internal report prepared after Eric Garner’s death fails to mention the chokehold used to subdue him and states that Garner was not…