![]() ![]() But as the cases of Floyd, Garner and others have shown, neck restraints have the potential to go badly wrong – sometimes resulting in death. Some departments state that they should only be employed as a last resort, when the officer believes the subject poses a threat to their or others’ lives. ![]() ![]() Law enforcement officers say the techniques are used to gain control of aggressive or resisting subjects. Chokeholds – also called airway holds – restrict breathing by applying pressure to the windpipe. Strangeholds – also called carotid restraints, sleeper holds or blood chokes – temporarily cut off blood flow to the brain and are meant to render a subject unconscious for a time. The term “chokehold” is often used in mainstream discourse to refer to any neck hold, but police generally categorize neck restraints in two ways: the stranglehold and the chokehold. The technique has been a subject of controversy for years, particularly following the death of Eric Garner in 2014 after a police officer was accused of choking him. Neck restraints, or neck holds, refer to the practice of officers using their arm or leg to restrain someone’s neck. Police departments around the world are moving to ban neck restraints in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the widespread protests that followed. ![]()
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