NYPD Officer Omar Habib is accused of using the prohibited technique not once — but twice. Habib is the first NYPD officer to be prosecuted under the 2020 law banning chokeholds, which the City Council passed just days after Floyd’s murder. ‘I did not like what I had seen’Former NYPD Officer Coleman Murphy testified that he was confused when he saw Habib’s actions in the back of the ambulance. Jurors saw excerpts from NYPD training materials and the department’s policy guide that explicitly prohibit the use of chokeholds. We can’t use them,” former NYPD Officer Jillian Snider said in an interview.