It may have been when the switch from steel cuffs to plastic was being made:KBCraig wrote:But going in for MRI also means "no restraints", so as they were in the exam room, the officer had to remove all restraints. I can't believe they sent a single officer on that job. We always send two: one armed, the other not. The unarmed officer handles the restraints and all contact with the inmate, to avoid this kind of tragedy.
Reporter wrote:At some point, the officer would have switched the wrist cuffs for plastic restraints and taken off the ankle restraints so Allgier could enter the MRI machine, Patterson said. It was unclear Monday afternoon if that had happened.
