Hundreds of employees are receiving training at a top-secret location on how to handle individuals who decline to go, according to News.
“I’d rather die.”
On the evening of June 14, 2022, jail officers were taking one of the first asylum seekers chosen for removal to Rwanda to a waiting aircraft at the Boscombe Down airfield in Wiltshire.
The man was wearing a belt with straps designed to keep him from using his arms because he had told his escorts that he would sooner die than board a plane.
He started yelling and hitting the seat, according to “use of force” reports that Liberty Investigates was able to get.
An escort had to apply more restraint, describing it as “head control” to make sure the man didn’t “headbutt either of the escorts or injure himself.”
