The police are allowed to kneel on a suspect’s neck in Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) allows neck restraint on suspects using an arm or leg only when they are actively or aggressively resisting.

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) allows neck restraint on suspects using an arm or leg only when they are actively or aggressively resisting.The MPD manual says the neck restraints and chokehold can be used by police officers when they feel their life is threatened and using the neck restraint is allowed when a suspect is actively resisting or aggressive with a police officer. Only sworn officers who have received training from the MPD Training Unit are authorized to use neck restraints.

Neck restraints are not be used against subjects who are passively resisting the police officer.

After a neck restraint has been used on a subject, sworn MPD employees shall keep them under close observation until they are released to medical or other law enforcement personnel. An officer who has used a neck restraint shall inform individuals accepting custody of the subject, that the technique was used on the subject.