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On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him.

The New York City Medical Examiner's Office attributed Garner's death to a combination of a chokehold, compression of his chest, and poor health.

NYPD policy prohibits the use of chokeholds.

A chokehold, choke, stranglehold or, in Judo, shime-waza is a general term for a grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air (choking) or blood (strangling) from passing through the neck of an opponent.

The restriction may be of one or both and depends on the hold used and the reaction of the victim.

The lack of blood or air often leads to unconsciousness or even death if the hold is maintained.

Chokeholds are used in martial arts, combat sports, self-defense, law enforcement and in military hand to hand combat applications.

They are considered superior to brute-force manual strangling, which generally requires a large disparity in physical strength to be effective.

Rather than using the fingers or arms to attempt to crush the neck, chokeholds effectively use leverage such as figure-four holds or collar holds that use the clothes to assist in the constriction.

The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of about, New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.

Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term .

Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

Color of Change is a progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization in the United States.

It was formed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in order to use online resources to strengthen the political voice of African Americans.

Color of Change is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organizing with an affiliated political action committee.

Rashad Robinson serves as the organization's executive director.

Homicide refers to one human killing another.

Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, including murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, killing in war, euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death.

These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system.