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Luis Oscar Chocobar (born 26 May 1987) is an Argentine former police officer convicted for the killing of a teenage boy during a chase after the latter stabbed a US tourist in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires on 8 December 2017.
Following the incident, Chocobar was hailed as a hero by then-President Mauricio Macri and Security Secretary Patricia Bullrich. His case inspired the Chocobar doctrine, approved by Bullrich, which expanded the rights of police officers to exercise lethal force.
On 28 May 2021, Chocobar was sentenced to a suspended two-years' imprisonment and five years of suspension as a police officer. Chocobar did not serve time in prison due to the lightness of the sentence. His lawyers announced that they would appeal to a higher court for acquittal.

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