Suspect Restraining Techniques: An Open Inquiry

This is addressed to anyone who has knowledge and training in restraining suspects.

Look at the photo posted at here.

Is this a standard restraining technique for cuffed, prone suspects? Is there a name for this maneuver? Who teaches it?

I know LAPD was banned several years back from employing a chokehold, and there are guidelines specifying approved restraining techniques. Does anyone know of any reviewed and approved guidelines recommending the technique being employed in the photo, and if so, can you tell us the agencies that use it or provide documentation to substantiate it is a common and safe practice?

Proof--Say It Ain't So...

Word is hot all over the Detroit news that slain rapper Proof is actually the one who started the gun battle that ended with his death at an illegal Detroit, Michigan nightclub yesterday...

Who cares who started it? The point is, if it hadn't been for evil guns, we'd still have this role model elevating America's youth with such poetic inspiration as:

Just bring who you gon' bring on, who you gon' swing on?
I'm King Kong, guns blow you to king-dom come
Show you machine gun funk
Sixteen m-16's and one pump [click-clack]
The snub in my paw, shove it in your jaw
Have you runnin out this fuckin club in your drawers
We lovin the broads, there's nothin to applaud
But fuck it it's all good, the hood is up in The Source
It's fight music

Rest, my brother. God, I miss you so much.

No Guns Bank Robbed With No Gun

A man entered the bank and claimed to have a gun but didn't show one...

And it's a good thing he didn't! Fifth Third Bank doesn't allow guns!

Ad Campaign to Deter "Gun Crime"

If you get caught with a gun on a felony charge, you're going to jail -- for a long time.

That's the message of an awareness campaign the Riviera Beach and West Palm Beach police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced Wednesday.

Your tax dollars at work.

Not Right From a Federal Standpoint

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.

Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained....

“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,” McLemore said, explaining why agents believed something to be amiss. [More]

Oh, really? And which federal edict does that violate?


The guy is on the ground cuffed. Why the hell is the BATFU thug putting his weight on a citizen's neck with his knee? If the citizen is a threat, why does the other thug have his hand in his pocket while he talks on the phone?

And why didn't Chief Williamson have them arrested for assault?

These incompetents can't tell the difference between a costume party and a crime, so naturally their first instinct is to react with violence. After all, if they don't understand something, it must be treated like a threat.

What kind of power hungry sociopath would want a career in this sick, unAmerican criminal syndicate?

[Via KABA Newslinks]