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It's difficult to restrain a healthy adult without simultaneously endangering his life especially without unduly risking your own, except where you have a signi
by nullc 4y ago
It's difficult to restrain a healthy adult without simultaneously endangering his life especially without unduly risking your own, except where you have a significant size advantage.
Consider it from an evolutionary perspective: a pinned animal is a dead animal. So we should expect animals to resist being trapped to the point of killing themselves / dying from the stress of fighting to break free. It's well known to be true for many animals and its also true for humans.
Anytime a person is forcefully restrained there is a risk of death.
- balaksakrionon 4y agoThis is a good point and George Floyd is a sad example of this in action during a police encounter. He exerted himself tremendously for many minutes while under the influence of various drugs, and with a seriously compromised heart, and then succumbed while being restrained. Knowing that people get into this instinctual "fight" mode frequently during police encounters, to the point where they'll exert themselves to the point of exhaustion and beyond, I do wish police had a greater duty of care standard to check on people and assess for medical emergencies during such scuffles.
- nullc 4y ago> Knowing that people get into this instinctual "fight" mode frequently during police encounters, to the point where they'll exert themselves to the point of exhaustion and beyond, I do wish police had a greater duty of care standard to check on people and assess for medical emergencies during such scuffles. Indeed. And we should treat forceful restraint as a potentially lethal move-- since we know from the statistics that it is-- and emphasize using other approaches where possible.