A Whole Lot of Choking Going On

A video uploaded by Lanessa Espinosa on YouTube shows officers placing her in a choke hold. Corpus Christi Senior Officer Jerry Lockhart and an off-duty officer for the Nueces County Attorney’s Office detaining her for "Interference with Public Duties," after she did not show an ID and recorded the officers. Photo: YouTube/Screenshots

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports that another law enforcement official involved in an unprovoked choking incident has resigned.

A Nueces County district attorney’s office investigator who placed a woman in a chokehold has resigned to avoid being fired, and a Corpus Christi police officer has been disciplined after asking the woman to delete a video of the incident. Video showing Investigator Gary Witherspoon placing the woman in a chokehold recently went viral, drawing more than 112,000 views on YouTube by Wednesday. He resigned Wednesday afternoon, according to District Attorney Mark Skurka, who had promised to look into the incident.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20141203-investigator-resigns-after-putting-woman-in-chokehold-officer-who-wanted-video-deleted-is-disciplined.ece

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