A Florida police officer has been placed on leave after video showed him pressing his knee into the neck of a black man a week before George Floyd's death. Photo / Supplied
A Florida police officer has been placed on leave with an inquiry pending after video footage showed him kneeling on a man's neck the week before George Floyd died.
Video shot by a bystander shows two Sarasota officers holding down Patrick Carroll, 27, as they arrested him May 18 on
domestic violence charges for allegedly attacking a woman by pulling her hair, striking her and throwing her to the ground.
The video shows an officer kneeling on the man as another handcuffs him and a third officer stands nearby. Sarasota Police Deputy Chief Patrick Robinson said the knee to the neck technique is "not something that we train".
"It's not something that we authorise and it's not something that we stand behind," he said.
