A police officer has been suspended after he was filmed putting a man in a choke hold just days after the tactic was banned.
The New York Police Department officer was filmed slamming the man, who gave his name as Ricky Bellevue, to the ground in Rockaway Beach at 8.45am yesterday.
Prior to the incident, Bellevue, 35, had been standing with two white men who were filming, jeering and encircling the police.
Bellevue is then seen on body camera footage approaching the officer carrying a plastic bag before being pinned to the floor.
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