George Floyd’s Death: Policemen Banned From Kneeling On Suspects’ Neck

Policemen in New York have been banned from Kneeling on suspects neck following the nationwide protests on the killing of George Floyd.

Ekohotblog recalls that Mr Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.

This online news platform understands that New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo officially signed the ban into law alongside police reform legislation consisting of 10 reform bills. 

The legislative package requires all state police officers to wear body cameras, and permits the release of disciplinary records for police officers, firefighters, and corrections officers to be released without their written consent.

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It also outlaws false race-based 911 calls, a move taken after the highly publicized incident in which a white woman called 911 after a black man, who was birdwatching, requested that she leash her dog.

The Kneeling on suspect otherwise known as chokehold law was named after Eric Garner, the black Staten Island man who died in 2014 while being held in a chokehold by a police officer.

The restraint tactic had already been prohibited by the NYPD, but today’s law makes chokeholds punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

“The truth is this police reform is long overdue and Mr. Floyd’s murder is just the most recent murder,” Cuomo said Friday. “It’s not just about Mr. Floyd’s murder. It’s about being here before, many, many times before.”

Cuomo was joined at the signing ceremony by the Reverend Al Sharpton, Valerie Bell, the mother of Sean Bell, who was killed by an officer in 2006, and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York in 2014.