In opening statements in the joint trial of a current and a former police officer in Aurora, Colorado, defense attorneys said the two followed department protocol.
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Especially considering it’s really only the US where this seems to happen an awful lot. I don’t hear about deaths in the process of arrest in, say, the UK or Germany or Japan with nearly the same regularity that we do with almost EVERY SINGLE PD here in the US.
Perhaps restraint methods that have no possibility of asphyxiating the detainee should be used, as most departmental policy requires.
Especially considering it’s really only the US where this seems to happen an awful lot. I don’t hear about deaths in the process of arrest in, say, the UK or Germany or Japan with nearly the same regularity that we do with almost EVERY SINGLE PD here in the US.