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Former DC Police Officer Gets Prison Time For Using Illegal Chokeholds Former DC Police Officer Gets Prison Time For Using Illegal Chokeholds
Former DC Police Officer Gets Prison Time For Using Illegal Chokeholds A former member of the Metropolitan Police Department will be spending time on the other side of the prison bars after being sentenced for violating the rights of at least two men with illegal chokeholds, federal authorities announced. Mark Lamont Clark, now 57, was sentenced to six months in prison after being convicted last year on multiple counts of depravation of civil rights under the color of law after two incidents involving a pair of men days apart in the summer of 2018. Prosecutors say that while wearing his police uniform, on July 13, 2018, Clark applied a prohibited chokehold out…

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Former DC Police Officer Used Prohibited Chokeholds To Violate Victims' Civil Rights: Feds Former DC Police Officer Used Prohibited Chokeholds To Violate Victims' Civil Rights: Feds
Former DC Police Officer Used Prohibited Chokeholds To Violate Victims' Civil Rights: Feds A former member of the Metropolitan Police Department has been convicted of violating the rights of at least two men with illegal chokeholds, federal authorities announced on Tuesday. Mark Lamont Clark was found guilty on Tuesday, May 23, of two counts of depravation of civil rights under the color of law following a pair of separate incidents involving two men days apart in July 2018. Prosecutors say that while wearing his police uniform, on July 13, 2018, Clark applied a prohibited chokehold outside of an area McDonald’s causing his victim, “D.T.,” bodily harm. That incident came after C…

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by Zak Failla