{"id":12944,"date":"2020-06-22T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayor-de-blasio-finds-silver-lining-in-nypd-chokehold-controversy\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:43:00","slug":"mayor-de-blasio-finds-silver-lining-in-nypd-chokehold-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayor-de-blasio-finds-silver-lining-in-nypd-chokehold-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayor de Blasio finds silver lining in NYPD chokehold controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mayor de Blasio finds silver lining in NYPD chokehold controversy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 22, 2020 |<\/span> 2:43pm <\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s a silver lining to the video of an NYPD cop app<\/a>earing to use an illegal chokehold on a suspect, Mayor Bill de Blasio said today.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo things happened in this incident we did not see enough in the past,\u201d De Blasio said during his daily press briefing Monday. \u201cVery fast immedia<\/a>te display of action \u2014 suspension within hours and the beginning of a larger disciplinary process. And we saw another officer intervene, and that represents the best of our police not letting something like that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officer David Afanador \u2014 who was seen with his arm around the neck of a man who was lying prone as he was arrested on the Rockaway boardwalk \u2014 was suspended hours after a video of the incident went public.<\/p>\n

The NYPD swiftly released more than 30 minutes of body-camera footage from the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the fastest the NYPD has ever acted,\u201d Hizzoner said.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the unnamed officer who could be seen tapping Afanador on the shoulder to get him to release the seemingly unconscious man.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future will be officers stepping forward stopping the bad things from happening, and standing up and living up to their oath \u2014 and I have a lot of faith that our officers will do that \u2014 and the department acting swiftly and transparently to discipline any officer that does the wrong thing,\u201d de Blasio said, calling the intervening officer \u201cthe best of our police.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Axon body camera in use by NYPD officers<\/span>William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

De Blasio called the footage \u201cdisturbing to watch and unacceptable,\u201d and said he had no idea why the officer used the forbidden tactic \u201cafter everyone in the world knows chokeholds are bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident also came days after the New York City Council made it a criminal offense for cops to use chokeholds.<\/p>\n

But the mayor stopped short of saying whether Afanador should be criminally charged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t get into the work of the DAs,\u201d he said. \u201cI respect their judgment. What I focus on is the piece that we control which is the NYPD disciplinary process.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a Monday morning interview with NY1, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said the NYPD had \u201can obligation to act swiftly\u201d because \u201cit\u2019s unprecedented times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from the apparent chokehold, according to Shea, the officers involved in the Sunday confrontation acted appropriately.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a completely different story when New Yorkers look at what those officers were dealing with for 15 to 20 minutes,\u201d the top cop said. \u201cAs for the officers\u2019 actions there yesterday, if you take away the hand around the neck, we wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation right now\u2026. I feel for the officers there yesterday, with these three \u2014 I\u2019ll be kind and say gentlemen \u2014 on the boardwalk. And I feel for everyone that has to walk by and ride a bike and have kids walking by these three.\u201d<\/p>\n

The body camera footage shows the suspect and two other men arguing with cops over an earlier encounter, not seen in the initial cell phone video.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were all talking all types of crazy stuff to us. We did nothing. I don\u2019t care. Anybody can say whatever they want to us,\u201d Afanador can be heard explaining to a female bystander. \u201cWhat changed everything is when he grabbed something and squared off, and was gonna hit my officer who\u2019s standing over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when everything changed,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe minute I saw him flex on him, that\u2019s when he goes down, cause we don\u2019t get hurt and we\u2019re not gonna leave somebody violent out here who might do that to one of you or another innocent person.\u201d<\/p>\n

The encounter came amid tensions over the police-involved death of George Floyd, who was black \u2014 and protests that ensued across the nation.<\/p>\n

Shea said, however, that he does \u201cnot believe there\u2019s systemic racism in the NYPD.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is racism in the world, we are certainly not immune to it, you will have isolated incidents,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think we have an extremely professional police force. I think we train as best as we can, but we\u2019re not throwing up our hands and saying we can\u2019t do anything else. I think we continue to look for ways to get better.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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