View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/cFRA3GCqGTw
It’s no wonder there there’s a lack of trust in the enforcement when you’re about to film footage like this nowadays. Obviously taken by surprise the way the agent comes over to usher her away but really not offering any resistance to justify the knees to the face, and the last one seems like an I’ll do because I can shot
And if that isn't worrying enough, Democracy now did a video of the dangerous banned restraint techniques seen in many of the clips available.
Chief among them is putting people in sleeper holds, but as a former restraint instructor I could see they have zero regard for any of the biomechanical and physiological safe guards = people will die, and some will have the choker taken off early and still die.
On this subject I really know what I am talking about. I practised at a level where I taught restraint instructors how to teach restraint courses.
Lets use a simple case study.
Joe Blogs who is potentially out of shape, or even obese gets restrained legally and is face down.
Already the subject is medically at risk, because they are in fight flight, elevated everything including respiratory rate with a decrease in respiratory efficiency.
To keep this simple, breathing regulates several systems, the lungs are a major buffer system in balancing the bodies blood gasses, which also effects the ph of the blood.
Someone in fight flight is producing a lot of lactic acid, they need their lungs to clear this build up, but right now they have their body weight pushing their lungs into the pavement, the fatter you are, the more compressed your lungs.
Then the subject has his arms cuffed in the chicken wing position, the stressors of this prevent full thoracic expansion.
The person now feels that drive which tells them they are dying through lack of air, they try to breath faster, which means they are blowing off CO2 less efficiently (the chief blood gas that raises acidity), they are now entering a state of respiratory acidosis....in a vicious loop, that can cause respiratory failure, cardiac arrest etc.
This how Howick youth Mathew Innes died. Helped by a cops foot on his back, when what should have been happening is that he is upright and being monitored.
When we restrain in secure units, we try to get the person up out of the face plant position as quickly as we can.
A lot of what you see ICE doing is putting their knees on peoples upper backs to deliberately take their breathing away (this is a fact, it is deliberate, the person is cuffed and prone, there is no advantage to the knee plant - and before we knew what we know now, the knee plant in the back to supress breathing was a technique "good on the big besserker types").
Also having your knee on someone's back is poor from the pov of being uncomfortable for the restrainer and off balancing.
I see a lot of these ICE videos both agents on the arms have their knees into the back, so it is a thing, they have decided to bring back banned (illegal in NZ) crap.
Some of the people they restrain will be on drugs, medications, and or alcohol, some will be asthmatics, cardiac patients etc.
As someone who has professionally restrained people, done everything correctly, then noticed their breathing is becoming erratic - stopped the restraint immediately, then been a full on CPR situation with a Doctor on hand while the person goes into full arrest - this ICE carry on is utter shit.
It is weak, it is cowardly, it is dangerous, it is cruel, and most of all it is political....it is like the enhanced interrogation torture techniques that the yanks brought back to torture Muslim suspects.
Those Torture techniques were banned when the Bush administration were removed from office.
These current ICE torture methods are more of the same kinda shit, I mean suffocating someone from an ICE arrest through deliberate airway restriction is the same principle as waterboarding right? From a subjective starving for air traumatic pov both are on a par.
