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NYPD officer charged in swift test of state’s chokehold ban

by Associated Press
| June 25, 2020 2:27 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Moving swiftly amid a global furor over police misconduct, New York City prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges against a police officer caught on video putting a Black man in what they said was a banned chokehold, causing him to appear to lose consciousness.

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