Mitch McConnell's viral Black voter comments cause widespread furor

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5. The same Freudian slip as Daryl Gates, when he was the Los Angeles chief of police:

The same Freudian slip as Daryl Gates, back when he was the Los Angeles chief of police:

It was compassion that led him to authorize his officers to use two special methods for subduing those arrested --the "bar-arm hold" and the "carotid control hold," or choke hold, as it is also known. These disabling holds make it unnecessary for police officers to use their weapons.

It was compassion that led him, a couple of weeks ago, to ban the bar- arm hold, which blocks the flow of oxygen to the lungs.

And it was compassion that led him, a few days ago, to ask his personnel and training division to try to determine if blacks are more vulnerable than "normal people" to injury from the carotid control hold, which produces unconsciousness by cutting off the flow of blood to the brain. It seems that, since 1975, something like 15 persons have died as a result of the two techniques, and 12 of the victims have been black.

Chief Gates thought he was showing "great sensitivity" when he asked his aides to confirm his "hunch" that blacks might not recover as quickly as whites from carotid chokeholds. "We may be finding that in some blacks when it (the choke hold) is applied, the veins and arteries do not open as fast as they do in normal people."