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Another ‘chokehold’ being probed by NYPD investigators

The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating whether police used a chokehold in a video of a man who refused to put his hands behind his back during an arrest for beating a subway fare.

Police saw Ronald Johns, 23, go through a service entrance gate to the subway on Lexington Avenue and East 125th Street around 5 p.m., July 14, officials said.

When they asked him for identification, he refused to show it and cops tried cuffing him for theft of service, according to the NYPD.

Video shows cops pulling his hands in an attempt to put them behind his back and shouting “hands behind your back.”

The suspect apparently refuses to budge until one officer hit Johns in the face and puts him in a headlock or chokehold.

Witnesses can be heard in the background shouting, “They got you, youngblood” and “Stop resisting so they don’t hit you.”

A community activist in East Harlem said the video was sent to him anonymously. It was also posted to Facebook.

The Harlem incident occurred three days before Eric Garner, 40, suffered a fatal heart attack during an arrest that involved a chokehold and several officers piling on the 350-pound man in Staten Island.

The NYPD confirmed that IAB is investigating both incidents.