NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the Public Safety Minister should push back against the RCMP continuing to use a controversial neck hold.
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Mendicino directed the RCMP to stop using the “carotid control” technique in a mandate letter given to Commissioner Brenda Lucki last year, but the national police force told CBC News this week that the practice has not been banned. Singh says Mendicino should pressure Lucki to change the policy.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Public pressure against the use of the hold mounted after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, who was killed when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. Lucki then promised to review the force’s use of the technique, and the RCMP has said it does not teach or endorse any technique where officers would place a knee on a person’s head or neck.
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