The restraining device that contributed to the asphyxiation death of Daniel Prude has garnered increasing controversy in recent years, figuring in at least 10 wrongful-death lawsuits since 2010 as advocates for criminal-justice changes and academics have called for better training and better regulation of the device’s use by law-enforcement officers. Mr. Prude, a Black man, died in a hospital a week after a March 23 incident in which Rochester, N.Y., police officers held him down and put a spit hood over his head.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 11, 2020 11:00 UTC