Starting Monday, their options in a situation like this will be to shoot him, let him go, or call in a social worker.

Junior Saiviii, in better days

Reading about that former football player who died in prison a few days ago, I noticed this detail of his original arrest back in 2019:

Siaviii was arrested in August 2019 after police spotted him driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen in the Kansas City suburb of Independence. 

Prosecutors said the 6-foot-5, 315-pound Siavii fought off officers, who tased him twice during the confrontation. He was finally subdued and cuffed after an officer performed a neck restraint on Siavii until he went unconscious.

He was found was in possession of a gun, ammunition, methamphetamine and marijuana.

The Democrat’s proposed police reform act, which failed to be enacted but will become law on Monday anyway, when Biden bypasses the Senate and creates his own law by executive fiat, will ban chokeholds.

“The chokehold and other police tactics such as a knee to the neck, which cut off breathing and results in asphyxiation is a procedure that is unnecessary, unacceptable, uncivilized, unconscionable and un-American,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat and chairman of the Democratic Caucus who first introduced the measure in 2015. “This legislation would make it unlawful under our nation’s civil rights laws.”

Okay, so how would you subdue a 6’5”, 315-lb man, high on methamphetamine, who’d already shrugged off being tasered twice?

A couple of cops in Minneapolis would probably tell you, when they get out of prison 22 years from now, to stand back, apologize for inconveniencing the gentleman, and return to headquarters.

I’m just glad I’m not a cop in this brave new world.