[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I bet someone could restrict your breathing just enough to cause you distress and yet you’d still be able to yell out.

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.

[Gaffer]

So, a ‘neck compression’ is legal, then? He died as a result of police force, regardless of his health. He told the officers he could not breath - more than one time. They continued with his arrest. That, of course, was what was important...bag and tag it.