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France to abandon police chokeholds amid Floyd death anger

by Associated Press
| June 8, 2020 8:27 AM

PARIS (AP) — French police will no longer be allowed to use chokeholds during arrests, the interior minister said Monday, banning the immobilization technique after it came under renewed criticism following George Floyd’s death in the United States.

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