A Bronx cop with a history of misconduct allegations, included one the city paid $744,000 to settle, could now lose both his job and his freedom over an accusation he used a chokehold to subdue a man.

Officer Omar Habib — who has already been placed on dismissal probation three times — will appear at One Police Plaza Thursday for a departmental trial in which an NYPD prosecutor will argue Habib used a chokehold, banned by the department in 1993, while arresting a drunken man at a catering hall on Eastchester Road on July 28, 2023.

Habib also faces a criminal trial in state Supreme Court in the Bronx, possibly as soon as next month, for the same incident. Because of a local law passed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, the alleged chokehold is being ch

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