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tulipsandroses

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8. Yes, one of his jobs in the FBI was to review FBI shootings
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 07:48 PM
Tuesday

He knows what he is talking about.
Like so many others, it didn't make sense to me that it was taking that many of them and they still could not restrain him. He wasn't a big guy.
I work in mental health, when I was in the hospital, we had to restrain patients for their safety. We have ongoing training that needs to be recertified every year. I am sure our training is nowhere near law enforcement training, our main focus is always patient safety, protecting their airway, but we were all trained to restrain in a team and how you communicate in a team. It makes sense now that I think about it, the point was not to restrain him.
There are certain moves that you do when you trying to restrain someone. None of that was being done. And Frank further mentioned, he was already pepper sprayed, so he would have been gasping for air, couldn't see well, it wouldn't have taken this much to restrain him, if that was the goal.

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