The Legal Aid Society called on Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz to dismiss the remaining low-level charges pending against Sircarlyle Arnold, a Legal Aid client who was violently arrested by New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers and placed in a knee-on-neck hold, the same technique used in the killing of George Floyd, reports the Queens Daily Eagle.

In a graphic video, NYPD officers are seen kneeling on Mr. Arnold’s neck while bystanders beg the officers to stop. Also, not a single officer is seen with a mask or practicing safe social distancing.

Following the murder of George Floyd, the City enacted a package of legislation including a bill that banned chokeholds and other methods of restraint, such as kneeling on a person’s neck, by police officers while conducting an arrest. Officers who employed these brutal and unlawful arrest tactics would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor regardless of whether the person they arrested sustained physical injury.

“It obviously reminded me of George Floyd and that’s what makes it especially egregious. It’s not just the misconduct or brutality of it all. It’s more so the gall to do something so specific that received national if not international outrage,” said Olayemi Olurin, a staff attorney with the Queens Trial Office at The Legal Aid Society and Counsel for Mr. Arnold.

Watch the disturbing video below.