Bound Prisoner

I've decided that October will be known as 'Coptober' this month on my blog. In lieu of Coptober I'm gonna be posting a lot of police related things throughout the month (with a smattering of the usual stuff as well). Here's a controversial video clip to kick things off.

I know I, and many of the people who read this blog, have fantasies about prison interrogations but how would you handle a real extraction scene? Below is a video clip that emerged from a Maine corrections prison. It features an inmate being extracted for medical examination. The inmate has trouble accepting the authority of the officers and has apparently been causing trouble throughout the day, including attacking an officer. Things come to a head when he spits at an officer who is trying to bind him to the extraction chair causing the captain to subdue him with pepper spray.

The pepper spray incident was controversial and caused an uproar with the captain temporarily being sacked, though later re-instated after an investigation into the incident. What seemed controversial was the decision not to clean the pepper spray off the inmate after he was fully restrained and the situation being exacerbated by the addition of a spit mask (the gag like mask) which left little room for the inmate to breathe.

Weirder still is that I can't help thinking this video reminds me of a few academymen videos I've seen before! Another example of art imitating life? Either way reality is definitely more scary than fantasy in this case. The uniforms are so hot though I'm not gonna lie.

Excessive?