“Police chokehold death of African-American in NYC subway sparks outrage”

Alerted by passengers and by a video on social networks of an incident in the subway, the police had noted Monday afternoon that a thirty-year-old African-American had lost “consciousness”.

Taken to hospital, he died there shortly after, according to an email from law enforcement.

The five-minute video, obtained by AFP, shows the victim on the ground in a subway car, another man — a 24-year-old Marine Corps soldier according to media reports — lying behind him and shackling him. tighten your upper body.

Other passengers standing above the two men look taken aback.

A witness told AFP that Mr. Neely had 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 up to the New York State Attorney’s Office for the Borough of Manhattan to decide whether to prosecute.

Rallies are planned in New York on Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday to push Manhattan prosecutors to prosecute the alleged perpetrator.

The Democratic Congresswoman for New York, in the House of Representatives in Washington, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Neely had been the victim of a “murder”.