Officer used banned neck restraint on driver who rammed Harbor Patrol vehicle, police say

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Publish Date:

July 22, 2020

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Jeremiah Dobruck

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Long Beach Post

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“These actually should just be disallowed, 100%,” said Suzanne Luban, an attorney and lecturer at Stanford’s law school. She argued police don’t receive nearly enough training to use the tactic.

“They’re really only receiving scrutiny when the person has been killed,” she said. “And that’s just the luck of the draw or the bad luck of the draw because in any use of those techniques someone could die.”