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Look — just look — at the rules Minnesota law now requires police to follow when assigned to schools, the rules over which they are now utterly losing continence. Seriously. Take a look.

hachyderm.io Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image Look — just look — at the rules Minnesota law now requires police to follow when assigned to schools, the rules over which they are now utterly losing continence. Seriously. Take a look. If following •these• rules prevents you from doing your job, then your job really shoul...

Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)

    Under the law change, police officers assigned to schools — called school resource officers (SROs) — cannot use prone restraints, meaning placing a student in a face-down position.
    In addition, the law says they cannot “inflict any form of physical holding that restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to breathe; restricts or impairs a pupil’s ability to communicate distress; places pressure or weight on a pupil’s head, throat, neck, chest, lungs, sternum, diaphragm, back, or abdomen; or results in straddling a pupil’s torso.”
    Officers working in schools may use these kinds of restraints, however, “to prevent imminent bodily harm or death to the student or to another.”

 

Sounds like nothing but common sense safety restrictions to me, with a (probably too-broad) exception at the end.

And Minnesota cops and police departments are freaking out that they won't be able to damage or kill kids quite so freely as they'd like.

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