Minneapolis police rendered
44 people unconscious with
neck restraints in five years
NBC News,
by
Emily R. Siegel *
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/1/2020 11:52:49 AM
Since the beginning of 2015, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have rendered people unconscious with neck restraints 44 times, according to an NBC News analysis of police records. Several police experts said that number appears to be unusually high. Minneapolis police used neck restraints at least 237 times during that span, and in 16 percent of the incidents the suspects and other individuals lost consciousness, the department's use-of-force records show.(Snip) The on-line version of the policy manual says, "The unconscious neck restraint shall only be applied … 1. On a subject who is exhibiting active aggression,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 6/1/2020 11:59:31 AM (No. 428401)
I said to wife last week -- in it's not in the police manual, it's homicide. If it is in the manual, it's another example of Democrats beating up on Democrats
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/1/2020 12:34:20 PM (No. 428455)
How can this be? Minneapolis is a Dem stronghold
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/1/2020 12:50:38 PM (No. 428479)
The police cannot use their firearms, chokeholds, neck restraints, etc. What else can the police not do to defend themselves? Please provide a complete list. No wonder the police are standing down, and we now have anarchy. Separately, please provide a list to the criminals of the things they cannot do. As no laws are ever enforced against the left, why do we have any laws or police? Our DOJ has become concerned, very concerned.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/1/2020 1:09:51 PM (No. 428502)
Do we have an unwritten unauthorized SOP that went wrong due to underlying health conditions? The calmness and smug look hand in the pocket, who knows.
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DVC 6/1/2020 1:15:03 PM (No. 428503)
So, basically the police will have two choices. Ask them nicely, and if they don't comply, their only other tool is to shoot them?
First point - the neck restraint or "sleeper hold" has nothing to do with what the officer did to Floyd. They are not at all the same thing.
This is insanity. The "sleeper hold", done properly, as trained, has no pressure on the trachea, and has nothing to do with cutting off airway. It compresses both side arteries to the brain, blood pressure to the brain drops, subject is rendered unconscious. When a person stands up quickly, the syncope effect can cause the same thing, momentary shortage of blood pressure to the brain, and a person is said to "faint". The primary risk of injury is in falling when fainting. If the person is in a head restraint, falling is not an issue.
If the head restraint is ended as soon as the person 'faints', it is generally harmless - certainly better than being shot. I have discussed this hold, because there have been some departments taking this tool away from officers by policy, with several police officer friends over the years, some who have used it.
They told me it has saved a lot of mayhem with extremely combative arrestees. Perhaps even saving their lives, in preventing it from escalating to gunfire. Police are often arresting very violent, very combative individuals, and they are often on drugs which limit their ability to feel pain, making some fighting methods dramatically less effective for the officers.
IMO, this hold should be permitted, when used as trained, and with the understanding by the officers that if the hold is continued for a long period after fainting occurs - it can be considered abuse by the officer, and if continued long enough, could be murder.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/1/2020 2:08:39 PM (No. 428574)
You got to ask where was the liberal Democrat Minneapolis City leadership over the years when their police were reportedly killing 44 people, as the liberal Democrat City leadership has been in office with a Black Police Chief and a Black Public Safety Director?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/1/2020 2:10:48 PM (No. 428578)
When was the last time that non-Democrat officials were involved?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FLCracker 6/1/2020 7:24:40 PM (No. 428838)
How many of those 237 people died?
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