Sigh.
Personally, I find it hard to view resisting arrest in nearly any other light except that no matter what happens, no matter your race, if you resist arrest, whatever happens is on your hands, not the arresting police.
That doesn’t mean the police have free reign to do whatever violence they wish.
But police are going to respond to resisting arrest with ever increasing force until the subject is subdued. That is a fact, and is what they are trained to do, as you said.
I have had no training in this, but I would think there has to be a concept of using the minimum possible force to subdue a subject.
And as the resistance goes up, the gap between one force and the next one used is going to get greater, due to the need of protecting the police who are doing their job.
I am sure there may be come who read my response and accuse me of endorsing police brutality. I would endorse nothing of the sort.
5h3re is a “mandate” to use the minimum force available to “get the subject unDer control. That is why they went to the knee technique instead of using batons, or brass knuckles, or night sticks e t c to “beat a perp into submission” . The knee was the best option to get a violent perp u Der control without causing too much harm. If you remember, the police were accused of using a “choke hold” to subdue a standing unusually large perp back awhile ago, and he ended up dying, and there was a huge uproar over the technique. And perhaps rightfully so, as there is a fine line between causing the person to submit, and them going unconscious and possibly dying if the hold is held too long.
Have you read that link the fella posted to me above? Some really good I fo I. There about the techniques used and why they use them, and how safe they are compared to other techniques. It is a really thorough breakdown of the trial so far with a huge amount of really pertinent j fo that should be a slam dunk for the defense IF the jury is I partial and objective