My brother Chuck, suggested that I write something for you Aussies. As someone who had a career in security, often involved dealing with crowds that might threaten rock stars, and in my older days, working bars, I spend a lot of time working using restraints. There has been a lot of shock and horror about the foot on the neck restrain used by the US cop on George Floyd to restrain him after he got violent with the arresting officers. The ignorant think that all of the body weight is put on the neck crushing it, allegedly leading to the suspect saying that he can’t breathe. But, if you can’t breathe, you would not be saying it, rather, if short of air, the body would be gasping, not talking coherently. Further, the way the leg is put, at worst, blood supply, not air (which is at the front of the neck) would be cut off which was not done. It is really only a pinning move, not a crush, when done properly by trained officers.
The knee restrain technique is used by the Israeli Defense Force, with effect. It is a highly sensible way of restraint, allowing arrest procedures to continue. It is much safer that putting sleeper/choke holds onto people, which really could lead to what people think happened to Floyd. However, since technique is used by Israel, naturally the Left goes mad:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pro-bds-petition-circulates-blaming-israel-for-us-police-brutality-630448
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/minnesota-cops-trained-israeli-forces-restraint-techniques
“A petition being circulated at the University of California (UC) has suggested that Israel is to be blamed for teaching methods to American police forces that were used and resulted in the death of George Floyd, according to the Algemeiner. The petition was circulated online and signed by hundreds of organizations and individuals from schools within the UC system, which included among other demands for abolishing US police forces and returning “all Indigenous lands” to Native Americans. This complicity goes beyond domestic policing. We also call on the UC to divest from companies that profit off of Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestine, investments that uphold a system of anti-Black racism in the US,” the petition said, connecting the universities to Israel. It added that "we know the Minneapolis police were also trained by Israeli counter-terrorism officers. The knee-to-neck choke-hold that Chauvin used to murder George Floyd has been used and perfected to torture Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces through 72 years of ethnic cleansing and dispossession. Police departments view Israeli Defense Force tactics as models for responding to ‘public health and safety crises.’" The second demand listed in the petition is that the UC “Divest from companies that profit off Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine.”
Typical Leftist stuff, to work in an attack on everyone they oppose in one narrative. But I hope the knee neck restrain technique continues, because otherwise there will have to be use made of more dangerous techniques, or criminals just walk, which is no doubt what the Left want, along with destruction of Israel and the United States, and any nation with a drop of national security.
We are dealing with deluded people, living within a cult, who have lost contact with reality.