Chokehold

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A form of restraint used to subdue overactive, unruly, violent, or inebriated subjects to prevent them from harming themselves and others, which consists of occluding the upper airway by compressing the thyroid cartilage and displacing the tongue posteriorly; the choke hold is more dangerous than the carotid sleeper, which cuts off the flow of blood to the brain, but does not compromise the airways

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Judge Maldonado found, in her 47-page ruling, that Pantaleo had used 'excessive force' and was 'reckless', when he used a chokehold to subdue Garner, 43, who police accused of selling loose cigarettes on the streets of Staten Island on Jul.

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She stuns him by coming up from behind and launching her arms around his neck, trapping him in a chokehold.

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But the stories of Ferguson and Staten Island, New York, where father-of-six Eric Garner died after police put him in a chokehold, differ from that of Los Angeles in one important respect: The officers in the first two cities will not face trial.

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A white-majority Staten Island grand jury decided against indicting the white NYPD officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who put Garner in a fatal chokehold. Garner was just another black man.

I can't breathe

10) and others miss the point when they say that because Eric Garner was able to utter "I can't breathe," his airway couldn't have been blocked by an officer's chokehold.

Letters in the editor's mailbag

Protesters have rallied for weeks following grand jury decisions not to indict a Ferguson, Missouri, officer in the killing of Michael Brown and a New York City officer captured on video applying a fatal chokehold on Eric Garner.

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Garner and either employing a chokehold or causing a carotid restriction that led to his death.