September 24, 2020

Word: A police export on use of force re the George Floyd attack

 

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Dave Bissonnette -  I have been a police officer for 19 years. For 16 of those years, I have taught Use of Force and Police Arrest & Control techniques at the recruit level at the Municipal Police Academy and at numerous departments throughout southern New England on an in-service level. I have trained thousands of cops. My training not only includes physical tactics and techniques to control a violent and combative individual but also the physiological, psychological and legal aspects that officers face during this type of event. I am a certified Force Analyst through the Force Science Institute and also teach a course in police diffusion and de-escalation techniques. I have conducted numerous Police Use of Force reviews throughout the state and am considered a subject matter expert by the RI Attorney General in the area of Police use of Force. I’m not saying all this to impress anyone. I really don't care what anyone thinks about me. I’m saying it because I want to establish credibility with anyone that reads this post. I know what the f**k I’m talking about.

I have watched and reviewed the George Floyd video countless times. In all my years doing this, I have never seen a more blatant disregard for human life than what I witnessed in that video. It haunts me. It made me sick to my stomach. I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve seen plenty of suffering and death in 19 years but have never watched a man die while the people who are supposed to protect them watched it happen and did nothing.

Kneeling on someone’s neck is not a technique that is taught or accepted anywhere that I’m aware of. As a matter of fact, we specifically tell recruits and cops NOT to kneel anywhere near the spine or neck because you can paralyze or kill someone. There are countless other ways to control someone on the ground that don’t involve putting your knee into a person’s neck with all your weight for over 8 minutes.
 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Officer Bissonnette is delusional about the ratio of "bad apple" cops to law abiding cops. He claims it's only 1% of cops that are bad, but if that is the case, why did the other 2 cops not stop the guy kneeling on George Floyd's neck? It's because they are "bad apple" cops too, just like so many. It's not 1% of cops are brutal anti civil rights monsters, it's more like 50%-75%. I'm sick and tired of the cops treating my people of color and houseless neighbors with disrespect and brutality. I am tired of police disregard for human life by police who break into homes without knocking, like in Breonna Taylor's murder.

Bissonette seems to keep an extremely rosy tinted view of police and their harmful impacts on the communities they occupy. He seems to be blissfully unaware that the vast majority of rioters ARE the POLICE. They are the ones who fire "less lethal" bullets into crowds at head height, and taze people on the ground in handcuffs, and beat people who are on already injured as they are trying to leave the area. The "Patriot Prayer" man who was shot in late August in Portland Oregon, after the tRump car idiocy, watch footage of the aftermath, the cops forced away a street medic who working to stop the shooting victim from bleeding out. The cops violently shoved the medic away and allowed the victim to bleed out while waiting for the ambulance, which came after the victim was likely dead. The video sure looks like the police insured the shooting victim died so they could have a white supremacy martyr. Yeah right only 1% are bad cops, this cop is delusional.