A bill introduced in the Colorado House seeks to include "prone" restraint in the state's legal definition of excessive physical force. If passed, it would require officers who employ the technique to ...

Years after Elijah McClain was put in a fatal prone position by police officers, Colorado law enforcement agencies are being forced to figure out new rules and training on how to use – or actively ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In his opening statement, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell quickly focused on the length of time – 9 minutes and 29 seconds – that George Floyd was held prone, face down, in the street.

For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for ...

MINNEAPOLIS — “Once you secure or handcuff a person, you need to get them out of the prone position as soon as possible because it restricts their breathing,” Minneapolis police Lt. Richard Zimmerman ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – This week, lawmakers are making a last-minute effort to revive a bill to make changes to how teens can be restrained. Senate Bill 504 in Kansas would stop the use of the “prone” ...

Instructor Dave Rose, right, watches as fellow instructor Enrico Solomon, top, demonstrates the basics of ground control on a student during an Arrest & Control Instructor course in Sacramento, Calif.

If John Neville had been in a state prison as officers wrestled him to the floor of a cell and held him face down, they would have been required to get him off of his stomach after gaining control.

State prosecutors in Minnesota, who are working the case against the four police officers accused of killing George Floyd on May 25, filed a notice of intent last Thursday to cite eight other ...

NEW ORLEANS — The cries for help, the gasps for breath just out of reach, they’re gut wrenching to hear in videos that have been surfacing in recent years of people dying under the weight of police ...

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