In testimony during the second day of Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s NYPD disciplinary trial Tuesday, the head of training at the Police Academy said the officer’s maneuver in his takedown of Eric Garner was a department-prohibited chokehold.
“I believe what we see meets the definition, yes,” Inspector Richard Dee, the Commanding Officer of the Recruit Training Section at the Academy, said after a showing of portions of the cellphone video of the July, 17, 2014 incident that led to Mr. Garner’s death.
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