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@JackPosobiec One of the reasons that the city of MN settled so quickly and for such a large amount prior to the end of the criminal trial was to prevent information coming out on discovery on the David Smith (no relation).

@JackPosobiec The Smith case and settlement agreement was written to mandate retraining to prevent positional asphyxia injury or death in police restraint interactions. By 1995 enough data on restraint deaths had been collected to indicate there was a problem in certain types of physical 2/

@JackPosobiec restraints. Interestingly the neck restraint used by Chauvin was an approved restraint technique used and trained for by the MN police department and used by law enforcement and military worldwide. It was developed specifically for its efficacy and safety and had been used 3/

@JackPosobiec safely over 240 time by the MN police. Floyd fought police (O2 debt)did have sickle cell disease was covid positive and did have a fatal dose of fentanyl on board (from swallowing his stash to avoid arrest) as well as methamphetamine positive. To judge that Chauvin killed him 4/

@JackPosobiec was a political decision and not based on the facts. 5/5 @ScottAdamsSays

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays The case also points out a systems problem. If in fact the MN police department and city government agreed to retrain police officers and did not correctly do it (eg one of the most important things in a restraint is to let the person up as soon as it is safe to do so) then 6/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays part or all of the fault lies with the government of the city of MN. Notice that they were never called to account. No firings no criminal charges no resignations no apologies no civil suits just a quick payoff with other people’s (the voters) money. In risk mitigation 7/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays theory which uses the notion of a High Reliability Organization (HRO) to inform its work. Accidents or non desired outcomes are not only the result of defenses in depth failing (swiss cheese model) but are usually only the last symptom of organizational failure. 8/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays Those SS were from the HRO entry in Wikipedia but for a fuller explanation of how to apply these principles to a health care setting see this long but detailed document. ahrq.gov/sites/default/… These techniques are used in the military especially nuclear aircraft carriers 9/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays civilian and military flight operation, chemical plants, electric grid operations, industry and many occupations and processes where failure is not an option and could have catastrophic consequences. They have yet to be widely deployed in police operations and education 10/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays Much of the phenomenal safety advances in nuclear power, civilian commercial aircraft operations and hospital (especially surgery) operations we have come to enjoy and demand come out of Normal Accident theory and work with HRO. In the case of Chavin it is not 11/

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays completely clear he was doing anything wrong or going outside his training using the neck restraints he had be trained and authorized by the Minneapolis police department (errata: prior tweets use MN when I meant Minneapolis) For a detailed analysis of this technique see /12

@JackPosobiec @ScottAdamsSays this document llrmi.com/articles/legal… which was written after Floyd. 13/13