Police agencies are banning a controversial neck hold after George Floyd’s death
LA TimesAfter the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man killed in police custody, more than a dozen police agencies in California said this week that they are banning the use of carotid neck restraints. The move followed widespread protests that prompted more than a dozen law enforcement agencies in California — including the San Diego police and sheriff’s departments — to announce in recent days that they would stop officers from using carotid neck restraints. I think that we’re at a turning point in America, where we’re going to go one way toward progress or go the other way toward regress.” Los Angeles County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Mark Ridley-Thomas have introduced a motion urging the Sheriff’s Department and 46 police agencies in the county to reform their use-of-force policies, including by restricting or prohibiting the use of carotid holds, chokeholds and strangleholds. In 2016, a Bakersfield police officer used a carotid hold to subdue 63-year-old Jose Cesar Vilorio, who later died from blunt-force trauma and a neck compression due to the hold, according to a coroner’s report.
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Court upholds NYC law banning the types of police restraints that killed George Floyd, Eric Garner
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The cities, states and countries finally putting an end to police neck restraints
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D66 call for choke hold to be banned in wake of George Floyd's death
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D66 call for choke hold to be banned in wake of George Floyd's death
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San Diego police end use of carotid restraint, effective immediately
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