NYPD cop found guilty of chokehold in first conviction since restraint tactic banned after George Floyd death

An NYPD officer named Omar Habib was found guilty of strangulation and using a prohibited chokehold, marking the first conviction under the city's 2020 chokehold ban. The law criminalizes certain restraint tactics and was enacted following George Floyd’s murder. After being convicted of felony strangulation, Habib was terminated from the police department.