
 
 Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint (LVNR®) 
 
 
 
 The LVNR® is the number one law enforcement system of neck restraint --standing, kneeling or on the ground. If your agency is now using or considering the use of neck restraints for officer safety and subject control, then the copyrighted and US Patent Office registered NLETC/KCMO PD LVNR® is the one method you need to assess. It has been extensively field and medically tested and has proven to be safer, more effective, and less controversial than any other known neck restraint method. That is why the NLETC/KCMO PD LVNR® is the predominant method of neck control, and is now being adopted nationwide by those law enforcement agencies that teach ground defense/control systems. 
 
 
 
 Agencies and trainers should avoid the use of single-level, or time limit approved neck restraint methods since their use has resulted in all the claims of excessive force, death, and resultant litigation involving neck restraint use. Combined arm, neck and body controls are not as effective for most officers as the direct, rear, neck-specific compression which requires minimum physical effort for LVNR® vs. maximum physical exertion for other methods. Our statistics show that 50% of all subjects will cease resistance at Level One with low-level compression on the sides of the neck; 25% will comply at Level Two with medium compression on the neck; and the other 25% will comply at Level Three or be rendered unconscious in 4 to 7 seconds. Result: No death, injury or litigation for excessive use of force for 40 years against agencies using the certified Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint (LVNR®) System! 
 
 
 
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 ||||| A man who was described as behaving erratically lost consciousness and died early Sunday after Las Vegas police officers used a Taser and a neck restraint maneuver on him outside a Strip hotel, the department said. 
 
 (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) 
 
 A man described as behaving erratically lost consciousness and died early Sunday after Las Vegas police officers used a Taser and a neck restraint technique on him outside a Strip hotel, the department said. 
 
 The incident unfolded about 1 a.m. when the man approached two uniformed officers inside The Venetian, 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd. South, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a release. 
 
 The Metro officers described the man as “acting erratic” and paranoid. The man told the officers that “people were chasing him.” He ran off, and both officers followed, police said in a release. 
 
 Outside the property, the man tried opening a tailgate on someone’s pickup before approaching the side door of the vehicle. Then officers used a Taser, which police said took “immediate effect.” 
 
 But Metro said the man still fought, so one officer punched him several times before administering “a department approved control technique called the lateral vascular neck restraint.” 
 
 The man, who was unarmed, lost consciousness. Officers performed CPR, police said. 
 
 The man was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead at about 1:40 a.m., police said. 
 
 Police said the control technique used is not a choke hold. Information about the technique describes it as a maneuver that restricts blood to and from the brain, making it more difficult for suspects to resist arrest. When applied properly, the technique does not block a suspect’s airway. 
 
 Las Vegas Sands spokesman Ron Reese said The Venetian would not release a statement about the incident, referring inquiries on Sunday to Metro. 
 
 Members of Metro’s Office of Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing will meet with the Sherriff’s Office early Monday morning to determine how the department will move forward with the investigation, according to Metro spokesman Michael Rodriguez. 
 
 It’s unclear when police will identify the officers involved and the man who died, because the incident is different from usual in-custody deaths and involves elements Metro does not classify as “deadly force” — namely the Taser use and neck hold, Rodriguez said. 
 
 Carolyn Becic, who came to town from Portland, Oregon, to visit family, said she watched the incident from the taxi pickup area of The Venetian. 
 
 She was on the second floor of the hotel-casino’s parking garage with her family and waiting for their Uber driver to arrive when she heard shouting from outside. 
 
 “We didn’t think anything, but then there was shouting again so we looked down and saw it happening,” Becic said. 
 
 The Review-Journal is owned by the family of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson. The Venetian is operated by Las Vegas Sands. 
 
 Review-Journal reporter Max Michor contributed to this story. Contact Rachel Hershkovitz at rhershkovitz@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0381. Follow @rzhershkovitz on Twitter.
– A man's death while in police custody on the Las Vegas Strip is making headlines, in part because of an officer's use of a neck restraint. Police say the incident began when the man approached two officers inside the Venetian hotel and casino about 1am Sunday, reports the AP. The officers say he was acting erratically, claiming that people were after him, and took off outside. They followed, spotted him trying to get into someone's pickup, and used a stun gun on him, but the officers say the man continued to fight them. One officer then punched him multiple times and used “a department approved control technique called the lateral vascular neck restraint," per a police statement cited by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The man, who was unarmed and has not been identified, lost consciousness and was pronounced dead at a hospital about 1:40am. The incident is drawing comparisons to the death of Eric Garner in New York City, who could be heard telling police "I can't breathe" while in a chokehold. The department, however, says the restraint used is not a chokehold because, when deployed properly, it does not block a suspect's airway. Instead, it restricts the flow of blood to a person’s brain by "compressing arteries in the neck," per the Washington Post, which digs into the semantics via the National Law Enforcement Training Center. In short, the restraint is meant to be a safer alternative to a chokehold, though the ACLU in Nevada isn't making such distinctions. "The incident of a man dying in police custody today is one more reason why the use of chokehold practices must stop," says the group's executive director. "Too many people have died as a result of this type of excessive force."