I Can’t Breathe: Why the Courts Can’t Stop Police from Using Chokeholds

Civil Rights
Written By Kathleen Paolo

by Erwin Chemerinsky, Esq.

January 2022

Dozens of Americans, disproportionately men of color, have died from police use of chokeholds. The Supreme Court’s ruling in City of Los Angeles v. Lyons has blocked challenges to the use of the chokehold, thus enabling continuation of this lethal practice.

Kathleen Paolo
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