Earlier this month the Washington State Legislature passed Senate Bill 6009 which would ban the police from hogtying suspects, classifying it as an ‘excessive use of force’. Hogtying is defined as the fastening together of a suspect’s ankles and wrists. The bill now is before the House for its consideration. This new bill is the result of a March 2020 death where a man in Pierce County was hogtied and remained so even though he told the police several times that he could not breathe. The man was also punched, Taser shocked, placed in a neck hold, fitted with a nylon spit hood and knelt and sat on by officers during the ordeal. Needless to say, the man’s death was ruled a homicide. The hogtying resulted in a finding that the man’s death was caused by oxygen deprivation via physical restraint.
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