Under the law change, police officers assigned to schools — called school resource officers (SROs) — cannot use prone restraints, meaning placing a student in a face-down position.
In addition, the law says they cannot “inflict any form of physical holding that restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to breathe; restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to communicate distress; places pressure or weight on a pupil’s head, throat, neck, chest, lungs, sternum, diaphragm, back, or abdomen; or results in straddling a pupil’s torso.”
Officers working in schools may use these kinds of restraints, however, “to prevent imminent bodily harm or death to the student or to another.”
Sounds like nothing but common sense safety restrictions to me, with a (probably too-broad) exception at the end.
And Minnesota cops and police departments are freaking out that they won’t be able to damage or kill kids quite so freely as they’d like.
They’ll just state that there was an imminent threat and that’ll be it. Cops already do it all the time when they shoot people who are complying and not threatening anything. The police unions are strong enough that it doesn’t matter that they’re lying - if they get fired, they just go and get hired at another PD 5 miles up the road.
It’s the ole South Park, “They’re coming right for us!”