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An off-duty Houston police officer used a martial arts move to kill a man at a Stafford bar because the officer thought the patron had "no business being there," a prosecutor said Thursday. Thomas Harris is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Sylvanus Okhueleigbe.

Another incidence of "deadly force" without using a weapon, but this time it was more than bodily injury.

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...sounds like a bad cop deal...if so...let him hang...a lot of departments have forbidden the choke holds for a long time...too easy to cross the line and kill someone...

Off-duty Houston police officer,Thomas Loyd Harris, has been acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patron at a Stafford bar. The jury deliberated for about 3½-hours before deciding the not guilty verdict.

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