I bet someone could restrict your breathing just enough to cause you distress and yet you’d still be able to yell out.
What is several minutes of decreased oxygen to your brain and body? No problem? Okay.....
It was twelve seconds.
I bet someone could wrap their arm around your neck to lift your jaw to immobilize you enough for others to handcuff the arms. He is huge and heavy. Sort of like cowboys taking steers down. Keeps the others from being bitten. They could do this without chocking. He died of a neck compression along with diabetes, too much fat, and asthma. Asphyxiation was not a cause. Hence not choked. Likely got the neck compression in the takedown.