An NYPD officer removed from duty after he was seen on video putting a man in what the commissioner said was a banned chokehold was arrested on criminal charges Thursday. Officer David Afanador, who ...

An officer with the New York Police Department has been suspended after a video surfaced showing him placing a man he was detaining in a chokehold and resting his weight on him. The officer, who has ...

Using a move similar to a chokehold, an off-duty Kansas City cop courted controversy on Wednesday after he restrained and ...

The New York City man whose cellphone video captured the fatal police chokehold of unarmed black man Eric Garner is suing the city for $10 million over a drug arrest that he says was police ...

A case seen as an early test of New York’s law criminalizing police chokeholds has ended without an indictment. A Queens grand jury on Tuesday declined charges for David Afanador, a former New York ...

NEW YORK — Internal affairs investigators who reviewed Eric Garner’s death determined that the officer who wrestled him to the ground in 2014 used a forbidden chokehold on him, a police supervisor ...

A suspect is in custody for allegedly putting a Canton police officer in a choke hold and dragging the officer with his truck. According to police, officers initiated a traffic stop on a Ford F-150 ...

The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white police officer's chokehold reached a $5.9 million settlement with the city on Monday, days before the anniversary of his death. Eric ...