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LA v. Lyons
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The Supreme Court's Decision to Ban Choke Holds
In 1993, the commissioner in 1993, Commissioner Raymond Kelly banned their use altogether. But we know that the year Eric Garner was killed, for instance, the city received more than 200 allegations of police choke holds. And so NYPD announced that it would no longer use them routinely. We all know that policy failed and the NYPD kept on using choke holds. The Supreme Court has nothing to say about it because the lion's decision stands for the proposition that there just isn't enough evidence to show a future realistic threat of choke holds being deadly and unnecessary.
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