Point being, you give me 1 or 2 seconds to wrap my arm around another man's neck and tighten as hard as I can (as it appears the officer did in the first vid), I could do some lasting damage and death would definitely would not be out of the question. Even if it wasn't instantaneous.
I watch those videos knowing what he was being arrested for and think the whole thing stinks and was a disgrace. I initially thought all the involved cops should be charged. And nothing I've read here has changed that.
Because if he were indeed being choked, and choked intentionally, why would the officer release, essentially immediately, when Mr. Garner said “I can’t breathe?”
My opinion is that this wasn’t a choke hold, rather something akin to a clothesline, whose intent was to force someone down, and not to choke them.
Additionally, you assume “tighten as hard as I can.” I don’t make that assumption. If that were the case, why would he be so quick to let go?
Honest people can disagree.