Karate Chop Approved To Restrain Child

Most of the time, we are forced to come up with a funny or interesting headline about the stuff we write about. Well, not this time. According to the Guardian:

Staff in privately run child jails have been told they can use a painful “karate chop to the nose” technique to control troublesome teenagers as a result of an internal review of restraint methods after the death of a 15-year-old last year.

The government’s Youth Justice Board has permanently suspended the use of a technique known as the “seated double embrace”, who investigated the death of Gareth Myatt.

The guidelines, approved by ministers for immediate implementation, include:

· Nose “distractions” should only be used during a three-person hold to end a violent situation if a child continues to struggle. In other circumstances they can be used to release somebody from an attack. There should be a maximum of two nose “distractions” during any one incident.

Calling a karate chop to the nose a “distraction” is like calling a bullet hole in the face “agitating.” I’m not sure how they think less children are going to die by striking them in the nose, than by embracing them. Haven’t they ever seen The Last Boy Scout when Bruce Willis kills that guy by shoving his nose into his brain with a super hard “nose distraction” to the face? There’s a reason he didn’t kill him using a “double embrace” to the torso. Haven’t we learned anything from Bruce Willis movies?

Thanks to PJS for sending this in.