Governor Gavin Newsom and California state representatives call for a ban of controversial neck hold
On Friday, California joined a growing list of states and cities across the country banning police forces from using the carotid neck hold — a method used by police to restrain people which has come under fire for severely harming people during arrests.
More than 12 law enforcement agencies across California have already responded to the wave Civil Rights marches nationwide sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after Minneapolis police officers knelt on his neck and pinned him down during an arrest, by banning the carotid hold among their officers.
Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state's police training program to discontinue teaching the "sleeper hold" on Friday in addition to working with members of representatives of California Legislature's Black and Latinx causes to create legislature banning the technique, AB 392.
"We train techniques on strangleholds that put people's lives at risk," Newsom said during a Friday press conference. "That has no place any longer in 21st-century practices and policing."
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