Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers used neck restraints during hundreds of arrests over the past five years that have led to 44 people being rendered unconscious, a tactic that led to the death of George Floyd last week.
Appears to be a systemic failure of the rank and file to use proper and lawful restraint techniques.
āunconscious neck restraintāā¦ cause you really need to restrain those who are unconsciousā¦
Maybe thatāll be Chauvinās official defense: We were all doing it, I just got unlucky.
Clean houseā¦police with clean records can reapply but must undergo rigorous retraining.
This is why you need to clean house, starting at the top. The chief should be gone.
Neck kneeling pros. Not their first rodeo. Criminals. All because Floyd perhaps passed a counterfeit $20.
Which he likely didnāt know was counterfeit.
Actually, it appears to be systemic racism.
āOf those 44 people who lost consciousness as a result of neck restraints, approximately 60 percent (or three-fifths, as NBC News notes) were black.ā
I would think perhaps their behavior is something you use on someone thatās just robbed a bank or assulted someone. All predicated on that the person wasnāt suspected of having a gun, other wise, shoot to kill.
The way the carotid choke hold works is you deprive the brain of blood and the person goes unconscious. Then you let go because if you donāt the person dies. You donāt leave the person in the hold after they lose consciousness unless you want to kill them.
Remember when this was the symbol of all it was wrong in our society? This guy tried āpeaceful protestā all he achieved was getting blacklisted ā¦ Now deal with the riotsā¦
And juries will buy it.
My interpretation of the heading, with that description, is make the suspect unconscious.
So keeping pressure on the carotid artery can cause a drop in blood pressure, which can lead to unconsciousness.
Lawless police. The bad apples need to be culled from the bin.
Sure does. I hope the media keeps digging to find out what happened to those officers responsible for all of these incidents.
"The MPDās Policy & Procedure Manual online, which was not immediately accessible online Monday morning, described the procedure as a āNon-deadly force option.ā
Except, when, you know, it causes death.
An analysis of MPD records by NBC News found that officers invoked the arrest technique, which involves digging their arms or legs into the arresteeās neck without obstructing the airway, at least 237 times since 2015.
Eric Garner (he had a āneck restraintā placed on him) died in 2014.
Trump believes unconsciousness is not a problem since he has spent most of his life in that state.
Pretty sure that for modern police forces, anything not involving emptying your pistol into a suspect counts as ānon-lethalā aka āsnowflakeā procedures.
