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Suspect puts outdoor diner into chokehold in New York

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Woman puts 16-year-old girl into chokehold outside of sushi restaurant

In the above video, you can see a homeless woman put a 16-year-old girl into a chokehold while she was eating sushi outside a restaurant in Queens, New York.

The incident took place at Watawa Sushi on Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, when the woman approached the girl from behind and strangled her seemingly at random.

New York police initially said they were looking for a man, but later announced they had arrested 36-year-old Minerva Martinez for the attack and charged her with strangulation.

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