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“I just hope they make changes. They need to have some training. A larger person … why even handcuff them? And they should never be left alone,” Proudman’s mother, Maureen Warren, said Thursday.

“They probably didn’t know … But just seeing the size of him. Laying a bigger person down? It seems like it should be common sense to me. There was no common sense.”

Police were called to a medical clinic near 122nd Avenue and 97th Street on Nov. 12, 2014, after clinic staff called about a man acting aggressively. Prader Willi syndrome also causes developmental delays and reduced mental capacity.

Proudman was handcuffed and placed in a police van on his side, while two officers interviewed people inside the clinic.

When Warren arrived at the clinic, she was told her son was still in the van. After waiting several minutes for officers to bring him out, she started to panic.

“We thought, ‘What is going on?’ Then we saw the paddy wagon bouncing and that’s when we ran around the back. They were doing CPR and his face was blue.”

Warren has seen the widely publicized death of Eric Garner, whose arrest by New York City police was videotaped. Garner, an obese man, was killed by “compression of neck (choke hold), compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police,” an autopsy found. Garner was heard repeatedly telling officers, “I can’t breathe.”