Having a DV victim in charge of the decision to prosecute makes the victim more of a target for an offender to pressure the victim or the victim’s family into not proceeding with the case, ultimately giving an offender more opportunity to control whether his own case is dismissed - and the dynamics of DV are all about…

Choking - or to use the correct term, strangulation- comes up more often than you would think in domestic violence cases. In some states, it’s chargeable as aggravated assault. It’s a bad sign, it’s not ok, and no one deserves it.

Just a note from a prosecutor of these kinds of cases, the correct term for putting hands around someone’s neck and applying pressure is strangulation. Choking refers to when someone’s airway is obstructed by an object - like food.