As national focus turns inwards (following decades of foreign policy projects to spread our freedoms abroad and defend our way of life), old race & policing related issues are bubbling up to surface again. This could also bring back into limelight sending of US Police for training to perpetual insecurity and confused racial doctrines based mideast countries.
Source is a controversial fakenews outlet but this report appears to be non-fakenews:
Derek Chauvin used unauthorized neck restraint on George Floyd, training officer testifies
Use-of-force coordinator: Knee on neck after Floyd was under control and handcuffed ‘unauthorized’
Minneapolis Police Department use-of-force training coordinator Johnny Mercil said the restraint used by officer Derek Chauvin on George Floyd was unnecessary. (The Washington Post)
By Holly Bailey
April 6, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — An officer who trained Derek Chauvin on techniques he could use to subdue suspects testified Tuesday that the neck restraint he used on George Floyd was not authorized because Floyd was already handcuffed and under control.
Lt. Johnny Mercil, who oversees the Minneapolis department’s training on use of force and other defensive tactics, said that at the time of Floyd’s death on May 25, officers were permitted to restrain suspects by applying pressure to the side of a person’s neck to gain compliance, but only if they were actively resisting and if other techniques had not worked.
Prosecutor Steve Schleicher showed Mercil a still taken from bystander video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck and asked if Chauvin was performing “a MPD-trained neck restraint.”
“No, sir,” Mercil replied. He said that “knee-on-the-neck is something that might happen” as officers try to gain control of suspects but said the act should stop when a person is no longer actively resisting. He said a neck restraint was considered “active aggression” under MPD use-of-force policy and that officers had been specifically warned to be careful of the neck because of the danger of rendering someone unconscious.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/06/derek-chauvin-trial/
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