Have you ever tried to subdue an unruly 300 lb man via some hold?
I was a bar bouncer years ago and did my best to hold and throw drunks out of the bar.
I wasn't any great MMA fighter and no expert on submission holds and neither are most cops.
When a big dude is pissed off and struggling, it's tougher then it looks.
look at the video. he was flat on the ground, fat and weak as fck. He was squirming because there were 5 grown men on top of him, and that makes it hard to breathe.
Howard, tasers work great on 300+ pound people too. And theyre NOT against NYPD policy.
There's no need for us to plain armchair copper on this one - they have put a great deal of thought into it, and they ruled out the use of such holds because it has so many variables, can be deadly or ineffective, and place the cop in close contact with bad guy. Tasers work better for making a man submit without taking away his lungs' ability to expand.
You aren't arguing with me now, you're debating NYPD legal policy lol. It's their rule. Cop didn't follow it - and he KNEW he fcked up, because he left it out of the report. Without the video, we never know about that chokehold.
Are you okay with cops covering up the use of banned forced? Howard?