chokeholds are illegal because this kind of thing can happen, if the chokehold caused his death then this cop should have been charged with manslaughter or reckless endangerment.
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Garner was very obese, and had asthma. He physically resisted arrest. There was no damage to his trachea or the bones in his neck, and was conscious after he was taken down, so I don’t think the officer caused his death.
And his neck was huge. You couldn't have choked him with a garrote, much less your hands or arms.
You don’t think the officer caused his death? So you think that by strange coincidence had the cops not apprehended him he would have fallen down dead in the street all on his own?