Images of George Floyd are placed all around the area surrounding Cup Foods where Floyd died on Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Minneapolis. - Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS
AUSTIN, Texas — A unanimous Texas Senate voted Wednesday to ban police officers from using chokeholds during an arrest. Senate Bill 69 prohibits officers from applying pressure to a person's throat, neck or torso in ways that impede breathing or blood flow unless the action is needed to protect the officers or bystanders from serious injury or death. State Sen. Borris Miles, D-Houston, said his bill was in response to statistics showing that at least 134 people nationwide have died in police custody due to asphyxiation in the past decade, including George Floyd, a former Houston resident kille...
