New court decision: Must de-escalation be tried first before force?

Author: Force Science Institute Article reprinted from Force Science News #342. After a half-naked man in the throes of excited delirium died following a struggle with sheriff’s deputies, his widow alleged in a federal civil rights legal action that: The officers should not have used any force against him until they first attempted de-escalation techniques; Their “excessive” force-first actions violated legal protections for the disabled and unnecessarily spiked the confrontation to...