NEW: NYPD officer charged with strangulation after video showed him putting Ricky Bellevue in an apparent chokehold, a maneuver the department banned.
The encounter lasts for more than 10 minutes and at one point the group begins to leave before they turn back and approach the officers. The video shows Bellevue appearing to pick something up and ask the officers if they are"scared."
The encounter sparked protests outside of a police precinct in Queens. In a June 21 statement on Twitter, police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Afanador used a"disturbing apparent chokehold" during the incident.The department said in a tweet that its Internal Affairs Bureau was conducting a use-of-force investigation.
“It is important that we keep holding police officers accountable for their actions," Zeno said in a statement."The officer involved here used a chokehold to strangle my client until he was unconscious, because according to the police officer, he was being disorderly."
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