: re: New York Police Officers Are Quick to Resort to Chokeholds, Inspector General Finds

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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:52 AM
Subject: re: New York Police Officers Are Quick to Resort to Chokeholds, Inspector General Finds
To: "letters@nytimes.com"


To the Editor:
   Of course, the police review board must take seriously each
violation of the police code of conduct. But this is not purely a
police matter. If an officer used a chokehold that he cannot use as an
officer, he used it as a private citizen. It is for the
prosecutor--preferably a special prosecutor--to determine whether
that's "assault and battery" or "attempted murder".
Barry Haskell Levine



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