“African-American Man Dies After Violent Altercation in Subway Caught on Video”

Alerted by passengers and by a video on social networks of a violent altercation in the subway, the police had noted Monday afternoon that a thirty-year-old African-American had lost “awareness”. Taken to hospital, he died there shortly after, according to an email from law enforcement. The five-minute video shows the victim on the ground in a subway car, with another man – a 24-year-old Marine, according to media reports – lying behind him to shackle him and squeeze his upper body. Other passengers standing above the two men look taken aback.

A witness told AFP that Jordan Neely burst into the car, shouting at passengers and asking them for something to eat or drink. Police briefly questioned the chokehold suspect and it is now up to the New York State Prosecutor’s Office for the Borough of Manhattan to decide whether to prosecute criminally.