Using a move similar to a chokehold, an off-duty Kansas City cop courted controversy on Wednesday after he restrained and ...

Since the beginning of 2015, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have rendered people unconscious with neck restraints 44 times, according to an NBC News analysis of police records.

Phillip Reeder, a 52-year-old man from Irondale, died last August after a police officer knelt on his neck, a death now drawing comparisons to George Floyd. His death was ruled a homicide, according ...

Police around the nation and law enforcement experts on Thursday broadly condemned the way George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody this week, was restrained by an officer who dug his knee ...

Several years before George Floyd, a black man, died after being placed in a controversial knee-on-neck hold by a former Minneapolis police officer, the NAACP began prodding the police department to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota legislature has passed a package of police accountability measures that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his ...

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(Reuters) - The Minneapolis City Council on Friday voted to end use of chokeholds and neck restraints like that used by a white police officer who pressed his knee into the neck of unarmed black man ...

In the wake of George Floyd's death and the massive protests against police brutality that followed, some police departments are reevaluating the use of chokeholds. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump ...