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Former Marine Daniel Penny surrenders to police in subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely
Daniel Penny, 24, turned himself in to the New York Police Department's 5th Precinct in lower Manha…
Natalie Musumeci
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The family of a 12-year-old girl is suing the Kenosha police and school district after a video showed an officer kneeling on her neck
A lawyer for the family says they're pursuing maximum financial damages for the March incident that…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Marine vet Daniel Penny defense fund nears $3M in Jordan Neely chokehold death as DA tips hand on evidence
Donations and evidence mount for a Marine vet charged with killing subway busker Jordan Neely. The …
Laura Italiano
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Read how Daniel Penny described his fatal chokehold of Jordan Neely to the NYPD: 'I had him pretty good'
In a statement to the NYPD, Marine veteran Daniel Penny said Neely was "going crazy" and that peopl…
Laura Italiano
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Surveillance video shows an off-duty Kenosha police officer using an outlawed chokehold on a 12-year-old girl
The use of chokeholds by police officers was outlawed in Wisconsin in 2021 after the murder of Geor…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Ex-Marine Daniel Penny faces up to 15 years in Jordan Neely subway death one year for every minute of the chokehold
Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman predicted a jury of NYC subway riders would acquit Daniel Penny o…
Erin Snodgrass,Laura Italiano
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Bystander intervention experts respond to Daniel Penny using chokehold on Jordan Neely: 'When force is required, it should be the minimum necessary amount'
Two experts in bystander intervention told Insider other passengers could have stepped in to help N…
Erin Snodgrass
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France abandoned its chokehold ban less than a week after announcing it
Police outfits in Italy, the Netherlands, Wales, and England are using the Taser, a less-lethal wea…
Isaac Scher
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Lawyers for Jordan Neely's family say Daniel Penny, the man who put him in a deadly chokehold on an NYC subway, should be charged with murder
A prosecutor said Daniel Penny held Jordan Neely for several minutes aboard a New York City subway,…
Natalie Musumeci,Laura Italia…
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New footage contradicts police story that Manuel Ellis was 'combative' as he died at the hands of police
Ellis said "I can't breathe" before he died. New footage shows he was "compliant" as he was arreste…
Isaac Scher
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A Delta Air Lines passenger threatened to 'cut off' a flight attendant's head with a shard of glass and put her into a chokehold during a flight to New Orleans: report
Nelson Montgomery threatened a flight attendant with a shard of broken glass on a Delta flight from…
Marielle Descalsota
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A homeless subway rider died after a former Marine put him in a chokehold in the latest instance of 'vigilante justice' plaguing the nation: former prosecutor
The medical examiner ruled Jordan Neely's death a homicide, but prosecutors told Insider the former…
Erin Snodgrass,Kelsey Vlamis
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Police departments across the country are banning chokeholds and other 'deadly force' techniques in the wake of George Floyd's killing
Chokeholds are a "deadly force option," a Minneapolis police manual says. They're now banned in Den…
Isaac Scher
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A New York City police officer who was suspended after using an 'apparent chokehold' was once charged with assault following the arrest of a 16-year-old
New York Police Officer David Afanador was suspended without pay on Sunday after he was seen on vid…
Kelly McLaughlin
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A New York City police officer caught on video using an 'apparent chokehold' on a suspect has been charged and has a history of violent behavior
Body-camera footage released by the NYPD shows four officers piling on top of a Black man before he…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Angry French cops threw away their handcuffs to protest a new ban on chokeholds
"We don't have a substitute technique," a police union rep told AFP of chokeholds. "So how do we do…
K. Thor Jensen
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New York City is reportedly voting on a bill that would criminalize the NYPD's use of chokeholds during an arrest, as protests for George Floyd rage on
Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to veto the bill in 2015, but said Sunday that he would support it if…
Rosie Perper
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Lawyers for Daniel Penny, the man who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, have raised more than $300,000 for the former Marine on a Christian fundraising website
Daniel Penny surrendered to authorities on Friday morning to face a manslaughter charge in connecti…
Natalie Musumeci
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Governor Gavin Newsom and California state representatives call for a ban of controversial neck hold used by police
Governor Newsom and members of California Legislature's Black and Latinx causes are calling to ban …
Canela López
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A judge reinstated the pension of a Black police officer fired after stopping a white colleague's chokehold, citing George Floyd
Cariol Horne was fired from the Buffalo police force after stopping a white colleague's chokehold o…