Wrong. In Minneapolis, it is official department policy to allow the use of neck restraint using an arm or leg for a resisting suspect. Floyd was certainly resisting arrest at the time when they were trying to put him in the car. I think Chauvin took it too far, but he was doing what their policy allows by using the neck restraint technique. Anyone you see on TV saying that cops aren't taught to do this is lying to you.
5-311 USE OF NECK RESTRAINTS AND CHOKE HOLDS
Procedures/Regulations II
A. The conscious neck restraint may be used against a subject who is actively resisting.
“Officer Chauvin, after the one minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the two minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the three minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the four minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the five minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the six minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the seven minute mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
“Officer Chauvin, after the EIGHT MINUTE mark of the video, how was the subject actively resisting?”
I stand corrected on that, and from the footage one cannot tell what happened in the process of getting him to the ground.
Dan Bongino is the one who said that type of maneuver is not approved (except I would think in a life or death situation for the officer, which in a cuffed subject, didn’t appear to be that)
I will forward this to him to get his take on it if he sees it. I find him to be a reliable reporter on things, so perhaps I misunderstood his explanation.
Thank you for setting me straight on this.