Seeking NYPD chokehold ban after Floyd death
BY MARK HALLUM
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson
and other lawmakers are
pushing to pass two changes
to policing that could materialize in a
veto-proof majority if all goes to plan.
On June 2, Johnson announced that
council planned to make any hold used
by NYPD that cuts off airfl ow illegal as
well as a standardized matrix for punitive
measures for police misconduct;
Civil Rights leaders Rev. Al Sharpton
and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric
Garner, threw support behind the legislative
plan.
When NYPD was barred from using
chokeholds such as in the example
of the death of Eric Garner in 2014,
Johnson said it was now clear since
George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis
that airfl ow can be cut off in a number
of ways.
“Chokeholds are not the dangerous
tactic that we must end, so again our
bill will cover any action that restricts
breathing… The disciplinary matrix
details appropriate penalty ranges for
various forms of police misconduct
and give the public more information
on how the police are handling internal
misconduct,” Johnson said. “I want to
say I’m sorry that it has taken this long
to pass these bills. These are bills that
should have passed long ago, it should
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson
not have taken the murder of a black
man in Minneapolis.”
The resolutions and legislative action
will be passed at some point in the
FILE PHOTO BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
month of June, Johnson said, something
he believes should have been imposed
after the death of Eric Garner.
“It is time for us to quit playing with
this; there’s a reason people all over the
country are energized and coming forward,
it’s because they know this is not
a one-time thing,” Sharpton said. “The
fi rst time we hear ‘I can’t breathe’ was
not in Minneapolis, it was in Staten Island
and it was six years ago and we did
nothing about it.”
Carr’s time at the podium was not
only spent talking about bold legislative
action, but slamming rioters who
she believes are outsiders in the movement
against police brutality.
“We see that the country is in an
uproar right now and a lot of it is just
opportunists out there. We ask the opportunists
to go away, this is our movement
and we don’t want to be an extra
in our movement,” Carr said. “I am
mad about what happened to George
Floyd and I’m not upset with the ones
that are protesting peacefully. But I am
upset with those opportunists… We always
have opportunists but it’s our job
to make sure that we ween out agitators
and the one that comes to capitalize on
your hurt.”
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