[LMB] Arms

[Margaret I. Carr]

I've seen a rather small female cop do a demo for Explorer Scouts, one
arm around the subjects throat and the other applying handcuffs. The
first time at normal speed you couldn't really follow. The second time,
slow motion, it was really impressive. So, it doesn't bother me at all.

Just read the new, in paperback, Tess Gerritson book. There is an early
scene in which the cop protag is on the witness stand in a domestic abuse
arrest made six months earlier. First the lawyer, and then the defendent,
try to argue that she couldn't have taken down the defendent by herself
since she was three months pregnant at the time of the arrest. This made
her nine months and overdue by a week on the witness stand.

The judge finally gets fed up with the defendent's outbreaks and orders
him removed from the courtroom. He does not cooperate and attacks the
bailif. Cop waddles in and has him cuffed before he realizes it. 

Scene is believable. My main thought was "That shows the jury!"

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:09:31 -0500 "Jim Parish" <jparish at siue.edu>
writes:
> All right, this is something that has bugged me for a long time.
> 
> There is a passage in _Shards of Honor_ that really derails my 
> suspension of disbelief; I simply can't make myself believe it's 
> possible,  which is unfortunate, because it's a climactic moment.
> 
> "She lunged, wrapping the belt around the doctor's throat, yanking 
> her  arms up behind her back, securing them painfully with the other
end 
> of  the belt. Mehta emitted a strangled squeak."
> 
> Would anyone care to explain to me how anyone but a quaddie could 
> do all of that, with the required speed, to an unwilling victim, no 
> matter  how startled by the initial attack?
> 
> Jim Parish