Now, I’m going to use the racial profiling ban as a starting point to sympathize with President Trump’s recent executive order banning chokeholds except if the officer’s life is at risk.
America went from banning racial profiling to banning chokeholds after a handcuffed Black man died from a White police officer’s knee on his neck.
If you throw in police shootings of unarmed Black men during the past decade, the Ferguson and Baltimore riots, and the fact that George W. Bush didn’t issue the racial profiling ban through an executive order rendering it toothless to his critics, then it would appear President Trump’s going in the right direction by immediately banning chokeholds through an executive order.
In 1993, after concerns of a rising number of deaths in police custody over an eight-year period, New York’s police department issued an order banning chokeholds.
The New York ban came as police departments nationwide prohibited various chokeholds.
