India, Aug. 14 -- A New York City police officer who was the first prosecuted under a local law banning chokeholds and some other methods of restraint was convicted Thursday, Aug 13.

Omar Habib was convicted of the misdemeanour established under the law passed after George Floyd's killing, along with felony strangulation and misdemeanour assault, and is facing up to seven years in prison, news outlets reported. Habib has also been dismissed from the New York Police Department, having previously been suspended without pay. Bronx Criminal Supreme Court Judge Cynthia Isales ordered him held without bail, according to the New York Daily News.

Habib, who joined the department in 2007, was responding to a 911 call at a Bronx catering hall in ...