Wichita police plan to ban kneeling on necks of subjects who have been handcuffed, as well as several other policy changes protesters have called for. A document provided by the Wichita Police Department to the Citizen’s Review Board on Thursday listed several proposed changes to the use of force policy, which has not been updated in seven years. In addition to the ban on neck-kneeling for handcuffed subjects, the draft includes a duty to intervene for officers witnessing unethical behavior, a requirement to provide medical aid after deadly force is used and a general prohibition on shooting at vehicles. Those and other changes were added at the police chief’s request, according to the document.
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