This photo provided on Oct. 31, 2018 by the Plattsburgh Police Department shows 22-year-old Kierah Lagrave, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., who authorities say choked a nightclub bouncer into unconsciousness after... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided on Oct. 31, 2018 by the Plattsburgh Police Department shows 22-year-old Kierah Lagrave, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., who authorities say choked a nightclub bouncer into unconsciousness after she mistakenly thought he had slapped her buttocks. Police Chief Levi Ritter said surveillance video... (Associated Press) 
 
 This photo provided on Oct. 31, 2018 by the Plattsburgh Police Department shows 22-year-old Kierah Lagrave, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., who authorities say choked a nightclub bouncer into unconsciousness after she mistakenly thought he had slapped her buttocks. Police Chief Levi Ritter said surveillance video... (Associated Press) This photo provided on Oct. 31, 2018 by the Plattsburgh Police Department shows 22-year-old Kierah Lagrave, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., who authorities say choked a nightclub bouncer into unconsciousness after... (Associated Press) 
 
 PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Police have released a New York nightclub's surveillance video showing a 5-foot-1, 125-pound woman choking a bouncer into unconsciousness after she mistakenly thought he had slapped her on the bottom. 
 
 The Oct. 20 video released Thursday by Plattsburgh police shows 22-year-old Kierah Lagrave, of Plattsburgh, approaching the bouncer from behind near the Five1Eight nightclub's dance floor and putting her arms around his neck. 
 
 After a few seconds they both fall to the floor. 
 
 The video also shows Lagrave dancing next to a female friend at the bar seconds earlier. The friend then slaps Lagrave's behind after she turns away. 
 
 Lagrave immediately turned around and went for the much taller bouncer. Police say he didn't resist because he thought it was one of his friends playing a joke. 
 
 Lagrave was charged with strangling and then released. Her lawyer isn't commenting. ||||| An upstate New York woman is facing a felony charge after she allegedly claimed she attacked a man who groped her at a club, even though evidence indicates that he did no such thing. 
 
 Kierah Lagrave was at the Five1Eight nightclub in Plattsburgh, New York, where she worked, when surveillance video appears to show her coming up from behind one of the bouncers, grabbing him around the neck, and swiftly taking him down to the ground. 
 
 City Police Chief Levi Ritter told the Press-Republican that Lagrave admitted to officers that she attacked the man, saying he grabbed her beforehand. According to cops, however, no such thing happened. 
 
 “The surveillance video clearly shows that Lagrave’s friend slapped her on the buttocks,” Ritter said. 
 
 Indeed, video obtained by the New York Post and others shows Lagrave standing next to another woman, who appears to quickly and surreptitiously slap Lagrave’s rear end. Lagrave immediately turned around, saw a man walking, and went right after him. The friend can be seen observing Lagrave’s reaction, but not doing much about it, tossing her hair and then finally walking over as the damage was done. 
 
 The unidentified man reported the incident on October 20, but Lagrave was not arrested until two days later. She was arraigned on Friday, October 26, on a felony charge of second-degree strangulation. Judge Mark Rogers released Lagrave on her own recognizance, and she is required to come back to court for an appearance currently scheduled for November 20. 
 
 [Image of Kierah Lagrave via Plattsburgh Police Department]
– In a slight case of mistaken identity—and strangulation—a woman allegedly assaulted a nightclub bouncer she wrongly believed had grabbed her buttocks, the AP reports. Kierah LaGrave was arrested Thursday in Plattsburgh, New York, on second-degree strangulation charges after the alleged victim reported the assault on Oct. 20. Police say the 22-year-old admitted to choking the bouncer into unconsciousness at Five1Eight nightclub but did it because he had grabbed her, per the Press Republican. But surveillance video suggests that the real perpetrator was a friend of Lagrave's. LaGrave, who also works at the club, can be seen on video talking to a female friend at the bar before turning to dance—which is when her friend playfully slapped LaGrave's behind, per the New York Post. The 125-pound LaGrave then spotted the bouncer walking by and put him in a chokehold until he fell to the floor unconscious. Law And Crime notes that LaGrave's friend can be seen glancing at the assault and tossing her hair, then walking over when the bouncer was about to fall over. Released on her own recognizance, LaGrave is slated to return to court Nov. 20.