NYPD officer charged with using banned chokehold on Black man | Black Lives Matter News
David Afanador was arrested on charges of strangulation and attempted strangulation over an altercation.
A New York City police officer who was suspended after putting a man in what authorities said was a banned chokehold now faces criminal charges.
The NYPD says officer David Afanador was arrested on Thursday on charges of strangulation and attempted strangulation over an altercation last weekend on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk.
The confrontation on the boardwalk came after weeks of protests following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
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