纽约市警官奥马尔·哈比布因在2023年布朗克斯一家宴会厅执法时对嫌疑人使用被禁用的颈部锁定手法而被定罪[1]。哈比布成为2020年乔治·弗洛伊德案后纽约市制定的本地禁用颈部锁定法下首位被起诉的警官，被判犯有轻罪和重罪绞勒罪[1]。他面临最高7年监禁的量刑[1]，并已被纽约警察局开除[1]。
法官塞恩西亚·伊莎莱斯下令保释被拒[1]。哈比布自2007年加入警察局以来有多次已确认的过度武力不当行为投诉记录[1]，且曾在2017年因使用颈部锁定而被警察局指控[1]。纽约州最高法院在2023年维持了该禁用颈部锁定法的合宪性[1]。
警察工会主席帕特里克·亨德里对该判决提出质疑，表示该案证明了"反警察宣传使公平审判变得极其困难"[1]。
New York City police officer Omar Habib has been convicted of using a prohibited chokehold technique during an enforcement action at a Bronx banquet hall in 2023, making him the first officer to be prosecuted under the local ban on neck restraints enacted following George Floyd's death in 2020.[1] Habib was found guilty of both misdemeanor and felony strangulation charges and faces up to seven years in prison.[1] He has been dismissed from the New York Police Department.[1]
Judge Sanchia Isales denied Habib bail following the conviction.[1] The case marks a significant application of the 2020 chokehold ban, which New York's highest court upheld as constitutional in 2023.[1] Habib's personnel record includes multiple substantiated complaints of excessive force since his recruitment in 2007, and he was previously charged by the department in 2017 for using a chokehold.[1] Police union president Patrick Hendry characterized the verdict as evidence that "anti-police propaganda has made fair trials extremely difficult."[1]