See, in authoritarian regimes you get injected with sedatives that kill you if you attempt to resist the government.

American cops have shown repeatedly they cannot be trusted with a baton... Anything with their involvement leading to injecting people with anything is completely absurd and dystopian

Land of the free my ass

I don't think injecting someone with a sedative AFTER they're handcuffed makes any sense. And if ketamine has any negative interactions with anything then it is not safe to inject anyone.

Has this really been considered carefully enough? If anyone might have died from it then it needs to stop until it has been studied very carefully and completely.

No one should die from being arrested. Stop the insanity.

I wonder how many of those people were a legitimate threat to the police officers' safety such that literally no other method of restraint was possible?

Injecting someone with a high, potentially lethal dose of sedatives seems like a tool that should be used sparingly with up most care, yet these deaths prove they're doing no such thing.

Holy @#% this is dystopian

The article had stuff about how the raised acids in the blood after a struggle make the effects of sedatives more dangerous. Plus the unknown state of chemical use before the encounter (a lot of arrests involve drugs or alcohol). Sedatives are pretty risky, imo.

Obligatory k---ing cops is self defence

I'm not going to get too deep into this, but as an emt who has had to deal with some of these people who end up ketimined, it is my opinion that not drugging them may cause more deaths than drugging them.

Sometimes the amount of flipping out of these people and telling and spitting and biting and struggling is just not very believable. Trying to take care of a pissed off patient flinging blood all over the place while they're summoning what seems like way too much strength for a person their size and racking their heart rate up to 180 seems way more dangerous than the drug risk for everyone involved.