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| Topic | Banning neck restraints is popular now but accountability is the problem |
| chaosbowser 07/31/20 7:47:08 AM #1: | I was considering the recent events around Floyd and wondered why choke holds were even being used because as far as I knew you can actually press on both of someones carotids to knock them out without ever having to restrict their wind pipe. Turns out choke holds are being used to refer to both strangle and chokeholds. Many major cities have already long banned them. Here an NPR article discussing it. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877527974/how-decades-of-bans-on-police-chokeholds-have-fallen-short The problem comes down to failing to execute a technique properly that should actually not choke the person at all AND that these failures are something cops aren't held accountable to. I personally don't understand why everyone jumps to the defense of cops on this. This is something we already do with doctors. If a doctor is held accountable for completely botching a case why shouldn't a cop for excessive force? They are supposed to be professionals and a death should be considered a massive fuck up by all accounts instead of slipped under the rug like they are now. It seems to me the politicians are just trying to throw it under the rug to appease the masses with neck restraint bans. --- I love people. I hate people. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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