New York's highest court on Monday upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person's diaphragm during an arrest, rejecting a challenge from police unions ...
The state’s highest court has upheld a measure banning the New York Police Department from compressing a suspect's diaphragm while attempting to detain or arrest suspects, a law enacted after George ...
The City Council’s passage (and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s July 15th signing) of a Queens Councilman Rory Lancman’s “diaphragm compression bill” is an understandable, but unfortunately misguided, City ...