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Podcast: Da Urban Conservative with Chaz NealBrought to you by The Leon Block Media
Episode: DAC; MINNEAPOLIS WAS GF BEFORE GF: 30 YEARS OF POLICE BRUTALITY
Description: on todays episode we discuss In recent years, many police departments have trained officers to be alert to the risk of what's called "positional asphyxia," the possibility that prolonged restraint of a suspect in a prone position can be deadly. It's a lesson some in the Minneapolis Police Department already learned once, 10 years ago.
Minneapolis paid out $3 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2010 death of David Smith, 28. The young black man was mentally ill, his attorneys said, and died after officers Tasered him and then held him facedown on the floor for several minutes. One of...