A knee across the neck will not (except for very rare circumstances, or circumstances involving deliberate impact, not simple pressure) cause death. The death in Minneapolis was NOT caused by a knee on the neck. It was caused by positional asphyxiation. They are two different things. They are two very technically different things, and the differences are fairly technical and specific. But they are also fairly simple - and extremely important. Because you can say you "accidentally" put a knee on the "wrong part" of the back, and it slipped onto the neck. You can NOT say that you left a man, face down, chest muscles seized due to skeletal-muscular constriction/positioning, for seven and a half minutes..."accidentally". One, a knee on the neck, can be claimed to be bad training, or an accident. The other, positional asphyxiation, is murder. Plain. Simple. Murder. When you handcuff the hands behind the back of most people (save contortionists,
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