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What Is A ‘Spit Hood’?
Spit hoods are a mesh-fabric hood designed for restraint that conceal the face and they’re generally fixed at the base with a band around the neck.
In theory, they’re used to protect corrections workers from spitting or biting.
Speaking to Junkee earlier this year, Morrison’s sibling Latoya Rule, said that asphyxiation from use of spit hoods is a common issue that occurs in cases of Indigenous deaths in custody.
Rule wrote on the change.org petition that the family “cannot bring Fella back” but “know there is at least one thing we can do to prevent other families from experiencing a tragedy like ours ban the use of spit hoods.”
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