chokehold
窒息,扼制,扼杀,掐架
Definitions
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- : a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- : a stifling grip; stranglehold: a company that once had a chokehold over the PC market.
Examples
Not a single cop since the Garner case has been fired for a substantiated chokehold.
The defense for continuing to use the chokehold came not from Faulconer, who oversees the Police Department, but from a lieutenant.
Lavin testified before state senators at a July hearing, where he questioned whether civilians are qualified to serve on police oversight boards, and suggested that chokeholds might sometimes be warranted.
We’ve been yelling and screaming now … for years saying no chokeholds and no carotid restraints.
SDPD banned the chokehold, after ignoring calls to do so for years.
The problem starts in that instant of electric mistrust when the cop reaches for his gun, or employs a homicidal chokehold.
Garner died in July after a white police officer placed him in a chokehold banned by department regulations.
In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.
The young man proved to be the very person who had made the chokehold video.
Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in what looked like a chokehold, which is specifically prohibited by the NYPD patrol guide.