Anthony Ramon Baez was throwing a football with his brothers "when two throws within minutes of each other hit two separate parked police patrol cars near the corner of Cameron Place and Jerome Avenue in the University Heights section of the Bronx. Neither the Police Department nor the family has suggested that the ball was thrown at the cars intentionally." According to the man's family, "two officers grabbed Mr. Baez around the neck and handcuffed him for no good reason." Police said he died of an asthma attack. "His family accused the police of choking him to death, and the Medical Examiner's office indicated that the cause of death was probably asphyxiation."
He was killed for the sake of playing street football.
Eric Garner and the NYPD's History of Deadly Chokeholds - The Atlantic