The wind pipe and corrotteds are cradled, not being cut or restricted. The position of the off hand is wrong for applying necessary force, the body position of the guy on top is to pin, not choke.
Why are you calling it a choke?
Why are you calling it a choke?
Because, based on the photo evidence, and my junior-high wrestling experience (for what that's worth), it is clearly a choke.
Because Garner said multiple times he could not breath.
Because the NYPD Police Commissioner, who presumably knows a little bit about his department's Use of Force Continuum (and how to spell "carotid"), called it a chokehold.
Because the coroner defined it as a homicide.
Because headlocks do not lead to peoples' deaths.