The Placentia, Corona and Riverside Police departments, along with the Orange and San Bernardino County sheriff’s departments, announced moratoriums on the use of carotid restraint control holds effective Tuesday, June 9, echoing similar policy shifts made by other Southern California agencies following the death of George Floyd.
The Orange, San Bernardino County and Riverside County-area agencies are some of the latest to prohibit the use of the technique, also called a sleeper hold, after Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody, resulting in widespread criticism of the use of force by law enforcement.
The Santa Ana, Glendale, Pasadena and El Monte Police departments made similar statements on Sunday and Monday.
As of Monday, Anaheim police officers will be authorized to use carotid holds only in situations where lethal force is deemed necessary, Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Shane Carringer said.
In addition, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to support a statewide ban on carotid artery restraints. The county’s District Attorney, Jackie Lacey, also announced that her investigators would be prohibited from using carotid holds.
Earlier, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva declared Monday “an immediate moratorium on the use of the LASD carotid restraint in all situations which do not rise to the level of deadly force.” Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and Police Commission President Eileen Decker also reached an agreement at the beginning of the week that prohibits the city’s police force from using the maneuver.
A long-term decision regarding the change at the Riverside Police Department is pending the result of AB 1196, legislation supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom that would prohibit police from using carotid holds, department spokesman Ryan Railsback said Tuesday. A statement issued Tuesday by the Corona Police Department references the governor’s decision to order the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to cease instruction of the controversial technique as of Friday, June 5.
In compliance with that directive, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department will no longer teach carotid control holds at the academy it operates in Devore, SBCSD spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said. The department has also suspended the technique’s deployment by its deputies, effective Tuesday.
“The Department is currently reviewing its uses of force policy,” Orange County Sheriff’s officials wrote in a statement issued Tuesday. “Effective immediately, the Department is suspending the use of the carotid control hold and evaluating its use and effectiveness as a compliance tool.”
“Effective immediately, (the) Placentia Police Department will suspend the use of the Carotid Restraint Control Hold as a use of force option until further evaluation and assessment,” officials at that department said.
Recent scrutiny of carotid restraint holds comes on the heels of mass demonstrations held nationwide in response to the death of Floyd. He was the unarmed black man who said “I can’t breathe” while former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against the side of his neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin and the other three officers involved in Floyd’s detainment have been arrested.
The former officer did not use specifically use a carotid hold, which normally involves using one’s hands to apply pressure to the sides of the neck. The technique restricts arteries that supply oxygen to the brain and differs from a choke hold, which is defined as a maneuver that pinches the front of a person’s throat to inhibit breathing.
A nationwide ban on choke holds, which were linked to the death of Eric Garner in 2014, is among the measures suggested in the Justice in Policing Act authored by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. The proposed legislation was introduced by Democrats on Monday.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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