"He Died Like an Animal": Some Police Departments Hogtie People Despite Knowing The Risks

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“I just feel like it was because I was Black and he was treating me like a slave,” said Shataeah Kelly. After she tried to escape from a patrol car, police video shows that an officer placed her in the backseat in a partial hogtie position.

“He Died Like an Animal”: Some Police Departments Hogtie People Despite Knowing The Risks
The U.S. Department of Justice in 1995 warned that people may die when police tie handcuffed wrists to bound ankles.
themarshallproject.org
5:19 PM · May 27, 2021

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/05/24/he-died-like-an-animal-some-police-departments-hogtie-people-despite-knowing-the-risks

GREENSBORO, N.C. — On a warm October day in 2018, George and Mary Smith drove to police headquarters, where they had a 2 p.m. appointment to watch video of the death of their son Marcus.

Nearly everything they knew about the September 2018 incident in which he died came from a Greensboro Police Department press release, which said he had been suicidal and combative before collapsing as police tried to help him. A lawyer had secured their right to watch the body camera footage.

When they got to headquarters, Mary changed her mind.

“A mother doesn’t want to see her child fall off a bicycle, much less getting beat to death,” she said. “And that’s when I decided I did not want to watch."

George watched the video, and left headquarters convinced police had lied about his son’s death.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Training and money aren't going to fix this.

[Dawson Leery]

2. These sheepdogs need to be placed in the kenel.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Sadomasochism

Without consent.