Chief Terence Monahan was referencing officer hesitation caused by the city's new law that criminalizes even accidentally kneeling or sitting on a subject.
“When you remove the safest control method, you force them to use the less safe tools that they have,” said Rener Gracie, 36, including firearms.
These easy to learn and simple to use techniques can help you take a resisting subject into custody.
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Work as a team with at least one other officer to apprehend a high-risk subject as safely as possible.