good God imagine being a juror on this case...
good God imagine being a juror on this case...
The jury selection will be a horror show. The firestorm about racial composition and the grounds to dismiss jurors, even for pre-emptory grounds will be a mess. The trial will be long and sequestering is a possibility.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/court_rules/cr/id/26/
A quick scan looks like a def in MN can waive his rt to a jury trial and go bench trial.
Can you elaborate?
Is a knee-on-back-of-neck an acceptable restraint technique there? (I ask because it appears that it may be elsewhere)
What is the MPD’s policy for dealing with suspected Excited Delirium? Does it mention keeping the subject prone in that circumstance?
My comment was based on prior reporting in this thread which stated that the officers were in fact following policy, at least as they understood it. According to that reporting, there was MPD documentation stating that keeping somebody prone like that was correct. If that reporting was incorrect, then I imagine we'd all like to have a good understanding of what the actual policy is; without that, it's hard to have any kind of intelligent discussion about the situation.
The MPD's policies were available, at one point, on their website. They disappeared about 48hrs after this shitshow happened. Assuming I read it correctly, and I'm not guaranteeing that, here's the gist.
There was no mention of knee-on-the-neck at all, either as a "do" or "don't do". There was mention of using the minimum necessary force to get them and keep them immobile so they can be properly restrained. The big one is that it's explicitly stated that the suspect needs to put in the recovery position, or preferably, moved into a sitting position, immediately after they're restrained. The "immediate" part was emphasized. This obviously didn't happen.
Excited Delirium wasn't mentioned at all that I saw. Also, there are more policies specified by the state that all LE organizations are supposed to follow. I haven't looked at those yet.
Also, I have a question for the LEOs on the forum. Officer Lane apparently said something to Chauvin about rolling Floyd onto his side once they had him cuffed, and he got ignored. So, the question: what were Lane's options at that point? Should he have Gibbs!slapped Chauvin? Yelled at him? Called it in?