Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe YONKERS, N.Y., April 25 (UPI) -- An ex-New York police officer, imprisoned for choking a suspect to death, has opened a martial arts school and boasts he fought crime with his "bare hands." Francis Livoti began Genesis Diversified Services after his release last year from prison, where he served seven years in the 1994 choking death of Anthony Baez for throwing a football that accidentally hit Livoti's police car. Advertisement Livoti's business Web site does not mention his criminal record. It does tout martial arts training from the man who "single handedly fought and disarmed knife- and gun-wielding felons on numerous occasions, with his bare hands." Baez's mother, Iris, was outraged. "If he didn't know what he was doing when he murdered my son than how could he teach anybody else?" she told The New York Daily News. The ex-police officer's reaction was brief. "I have nothing to say to you," Livoti told the newspaper. "It's on the Web site. Go read it."
