From LawEnforcementToday.com…
A grand jury declined to indict former NYPD Officer David Afanador, who was accused of using an illegal chokehold during an arrest last year in Queens, marking a victory for law enforcement in a test over a new law criminalizing chokeholds.
Former officer David Afanador will not be indicted after he was charged for using a chokehold on Ricky Bellevue during a 2020 arrest.https://t.co/VNpxOBtsPz
— News12BK (@News12BK) September 15, 2021
A Queens grand jury refused to indict Afanador,39, who was captured on cellphone video putting his arm around a black man’s neck on a Rockaway Beach Boardwalk in June 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin.
New York City prosecutors filed criminal charges against Afanador on June 23, 2020, claiming he used an unlawful chokehold. He was the first officer charged under the new law.
Afanador was charged with strangulation and attempted strangulation.
