Posted on 06/05/2020 11:10:03 AM PDT by knighthawk
MINNEAPOLIS — Negotiators for the city of Minneapolis have agreed with the state to ban the use of chokeholds by police and to require police to report and intervene any time they see an unauthorized use of force by another officer.
The moves are part of a stipulation between the city and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which launched a civil rights investigation this week in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody. The city council is expected to approve the agreement Friday.
The agreement, which will be enforceable in court, would require any officer, regardless of tenure or rank, to immediately report the use of any neck restraint or chokehold from the scene to their commander or their commander’s superiors.
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BREAKING: Mayor Bowser just officially renamed the section of 16th street in front of the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
Well, shooting is still allowed and it makes a bigger sound.
Let’s just disarm the police, put them in pajamas, and have them hand out sternly worded citations.
I thought they were banning the police entirely?
Maybe they should ban whatever was going on at the nightclub where Chauvin and Floyd worked, the El Nuevo Rodeo Club.
How about a Pepper Martin sleeper hold?
It’s a big circle. Rodney King keeps trying to get up when told to stay in the ground. Policy was to hit the person resisting in this way when he tries to get up against orders. So it looks like King is being beaten for no reason.
Ok. Change policy. No hitting with baton. Use an alternative form of restraint, don’t hit with baton. Incapacitate with foot to neck. Much more humane than hitting with baton.
How about a Pepper Martin sleeper hold?
Why ban any Police tactics when they are going to shut the Department down and contract BlM cops to care for the safety of citizens?
Rookies reporting veterans—oh yeah, like that is going to happen...career infanticide.
People that do absolutely nothing to keep the public safe, setting the boundaries for the people that actually have to face down murderers. Works every time!
“Rookies reporting veterans—oh yeah, like that is going to happen...career infanticide.”
And that is the main problem. No matter what rules are put in place it doesn’t matter if the cops are going to cover up whenever they are broken.
Why? They’re going to be disbanded or something. No cops. No worries about police brutality (/sarc).
Rookies reporting veterans is career-ending in any organization—a lesson many rookies learn the hard way.
We live in a world of real people with real relationships.
Rookies have _no_ clout in any field of endeavor—and anyone who convinces them otherwise is doing them no favors.
Why even add the word chokeholds to the title?
Me, too. Maybe they're just planning to de-fund the MPD Chokehold Division ...
“I thought they were banning the police entirely?”
That’s for the rubes who vote for them.
In reality, they need the police to enforce their diktats. It was the police who shut down businesses that defied the China Virus lockdown. It will be the police who confiscate guns. It is the police who, ultimately, enforce tax payment.
So police won’t be banned. They will be repurposed to be less effective at preventing crime and catching criminals and more effective at suppressing the rest of us and supporting the rule and power of the administrative state.
Without access to chokeholds, the police will just have to shoot resisters.
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