Two-thirds of people put in neck restraints by Minneapolis police were black, department data shows

[geardaddy]

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.

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Fire Kroll now! He's a danger to my city!

[geardaddy]

1. Kicking for exposure

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. FTP.

[geardaddy]

3. +1 million

[lostnfound]

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]

5. Thanks for that analysis.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R