Citizen
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SNIP An escort hold is a trained technique, and it is required training in the state of Wisconsin for LEOs. An escort hold can be used on someone who is not being detained or in custody. It is not battery no matter how much some of you babble it is.
Huhhhh!?!?!?!
If a cop grabs somebody, he is literally seizing him. There's no discussion about whether the person acquiesced to a show of authority, a commanding tone of voice, or other inferences that a seizure occurred. By laying hands on a person and controlling his body, the cop is seizing him. (See Terry v Ohio quoting Union Pacific Rail Co. v Botsford.) And, the Fourth Amendment comes into play (search and seizure rights).
Now, I suspect the courts might have already recognized and validated a power of a police officer to use an escort hold on an insane person, for example, to protect him from himself. But, that is not the context of this discussion. Here were are and have always been talking about criminality, reasonable suspicion, and probable cause. So, don't even try another angle.
And, why even bother to mention that an escort hold is a trained technique? Whether it is trained or not can have no bearing on whether it is a valid way to seize someone without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Is that why you mentioned it? To suggest that since it is trained, that must make it OK as a technique to seize someone without reasonable suspicion or probable cause? Oh, since the cop used a trained technique to seize someone, the cop didn't actually seize him?