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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/mn-minneapolis-police-neck-restraints-george-floyd-invs/index.html(CNN) In the years leading up to George Floyd's death with his neck beneath the knee of a Minneapolis policeman, at least 58 people lost consciousness after the city's officers put them in neck restraints, according to a CNN analysis of use of force data from the police department.
Officers used neck restraints on 428 people since 2012, and 14% lost consciousness, the data showed. That means the procedure, which is restricted or banned in many large police departments around the country, was used an average of about once a week in the city over that time period.
About two-thirds of the people placed in neck restraints by Minneapolis officers were black -- in a city where black residents make up 19% of the population, according to Census data.
Use of force experts told CNN that the procedure that officer Derek Chauvin used -- pressing his knee into the back of Floyd's neck for several minutes, as Floyd groaned that he couldn't breathe -- wouldn't qualify as a proper neck restraint under the city's policy and procedure manual.
Officers used neck restraints on 428 people since 2012, and 14% lost consciousness, the data showed. That means the procedure, which is restricted or banned in many large police departments around the country, was used an average of about once a week in the city over that time period.
About two-thirds of the people placed in neck restraints by Minneapolis officers were black -- in a city where black residents make up 19% of the population, according to Census data.
Use of force experts told CNN that the procedure that officer Derek Chauvin used -- pressing his knee into the back of Floyd's neck for several minutes, as Floyd groaned that he couldn't breathe -- wouldn't qualify as a proper neck restraint under the city's policy and procedure manual.
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Two-thirds of people put in neck restraints by Minneapolis police were black, department data shows (Original Post)
geardaddy
Jun 2020
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)1. Kicking for exposure
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,344 posts)2. FTP.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)3. +1 million
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)4. Doing the math, blacks are 8 times more likely to be subjected to this abuse
66% / 19% = 3.47 ratio
34% / 81% = 0.42 ratio
3.47 / 0.42 = 8.28 times as likely
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)5. Thanks for that analysis.
Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)6. K&R