‘He Can't Breathe!': People Call 911 to Record Cops Allegedly Choking Guy on Roadside

Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, officials across the country moved to ban the employment of carotid restraints — the sort of restraint that always renders an individual unconscious by restricting the flow of blood to the brain by compressing the edges of the neck where the carotid arteries are located. In California, the practice was banned statewide. “At the tip of the day, the carotid hold that literally is intended to prevent people’s blood from flowing into their brain – that has no place from now on in 21st-century practices,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in June. “LAPD banned the employment of the chokehold, if you'll , and limited it to only deadly force situations,” former L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell told local media last year. Despite the large pushback against the harmful practice, a video uploaded to Twitter in the week shows cops don't have any problem disregarding the policy and applying the chokehold. On March 30, police r