sarasota cop caught on cam kneeling on man's neck

[butters]

https://www.khq.com/national/video-...deo_6bf58bd1-b268-5e37-b6ea-f634dfcd2ab1.html

this guy didn't die, but lived to tell the tale. of course, the florida police bosses 'didn't know a thing about it and hadn't received any complaints after the incident' and it's not what their officers are trained to do, yada yada yada....

it's NO WAY to treat ANYONE.

the irony in George Floyd's murder is that, had that been a dog being knelt on--screaming and howling out--those cops would likely have been shoved aside by the general populace and maybe kicked the shit out of for animal cruelty

 

[adrina]

Yeah and just yesterday, day before DeSantis comes out and says that kneeling on necks is not part of Florida protocol for police and is not part of their training. That it's not a problem.

Okay then.

 

[cinnefille]

God, I don't want to minimize Police brutality against Blacks in any way.
The Aubrey and Floyd murders convinced me that there IS a problem.

But this taps into what I read on reddit: (Is it true? or fake news?)




MINESOTTA COPS TRAINED BY ISRAELI POLICE, WHO OFTEN USE KNEE-ON-NECK RESTRAINT
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/gwfs8z/minnesota_cops_trained_by_israeli_police_who/


Because your link implies that Minnesota cops use neck restraint routinely:
https://www.khq.com/news/spd-releas...deo_e5e27932-a69e-11ea-a840-1b5dde614272.html

"Prone cuffing, where officers apply pressure to a subject with their knee or shin to the back, shoulder, and neck area, is a commonly used and approved arrest tactic to hold a resistant subject until handcuffs can be applied. In this case it was administered for a short period of time – approximately one minute."

 

[Bad_Egg]

 

[butters]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/mn-minneapolis-police-neck-restraints-george-floyd-invs/index.html

In the years leading up to George Floyd's death with his neck beneath the knee of a Minneapolis policeman, at least 58 people lost consciousness after the city's officers put them in neck restraints, according to a CNN analysis of use of force data from the police department.

Officers used neck restraints on 428 people since 2012, and 14% lost consciousness, the data showed. That means the procedure, which is restricted or banned in many large police departments around the country, was used an average of about once a week in the city over that time period.

its use is obviously far more widespread than being admitted by various towns and cities

tacoma has also come into the spotlight