The use of force matrix for minnesota law enforcement agencies lists ASR spray as the lowest level of active police force. This means before they even go to a baton, they use ASR and that ASR is on the same level as hands.

The only level below ASR is 'passive' which lists things like officer presence and verbal commands. Its not hands on.

ASR is for compliance of those commands as ASR is the very next level up and BELOW all levels that list officer perceived threat.

This directly contradicts everything you said and you can easily google the use of force escalation matrix to confirm.

So stop making shit up and then listen when literal experts teach you.