NELSON: Now you’ve talked about holding a person in the prone position after they have stopped resisting, do you recall talking about that?
MERCIL: Yes sir.
NELSON: And, are there circumstances in your career where you have had to use your body weight to hold a suspect down for longer periods of time than say two or three seconds?
MERCIL: Yes sir.
NELSON: And are there times where you have had to use your body weight to hold a suspect down for ten minutes?
MERCIL: I'm not sure if Ive ever held someone down for ten minutes, I don’t have a recollection.
NELSON: Is it possible?
MERCIL: Yes it is possible.
NELSON: And there are circumstances that an officer has to take into consideration in terms of continuing to use their body weight regardless of whether the person is resisting or not resisting right?
MERCIL: Um, can you reprhase that?
NELSON: Sure. Sometimes an officer has called for EMS, correct?
MERCIL: That’s correct.
NELSON: And sometimes an officer may hold a person using their body weight to restrain them awaiting the arrival of EMS, correct?
MERCIL: Yes sir.
NELSON: You’ve done that yourself?
MERCIL: I have.
NELSON: And sometimes you…or is it fair to say that you’ve had to train officers to use their body weight to continuing holding them until EMS arrives?
MERCIL: As long as needed to control them, yes.
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NELSON: Situations are rapidly evolving, correct?
MERCIL: That is correct.
NELSON: And sometimes just because a incident is ten minutes long or twenty minutes long, that doesn’t mean that it can’t instantaneously change?
MERCIL: That’s correct.
NELSON: What may not be a threat one second, can be a threat the next?
MERCIL: Correct.