An expert in operational and combat tactics and training gives evidence about a neck restraint used by police on a 27-year-old Queensland man who died during an arrest.
A former special forces commando has told a coronial inquest that he would have used the same neck restraint technique that police used on the day a Toowoomba man died.Police used a lateral vascular neck restraint while arresting Steven Nixon McKellar, 27, in Toowoomba, in 2021
Appearing via videolink, Mr Cale told the inquest he had formed an opinion that the LVNR applied to Mr Nixon-McKellar by Senior Constable Tylarr Colman was correct. "I would rely on the police at the scene to make the judgement as quickly as possible to use a legal technique." "I think the use of force options they delivered were to the best of their ability … even during a high-risk incident," Sergeant Donnelly said.Mr Levitt disagreed with Sergeant Donnelly's threat level assessment.
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