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He was breathing when the ambulance took off with him.

At the worst, I would say the exertion and shortage of ‘oxygen’ led to a stroke.

Blaming it just on the ‘choke hold’ is ignoring all the other factors. For all we know, he could have had a stroke even if the officer never put the ‘hold’ around his neck.

Diabetes, asthma, heart disease, obesity, he’d just been involved in a physical struggle (supposedly he broke up a fight), then his pulse and everything else rose as he argued with police.

IF the officer had used a taser , as many have suggested, it probably would have caused him to have cardiac arrest, given his condition.

In other words, the officer couldn’t win no matter what he did (other than just letting Garner walk).

The black female officer, who like the other officers, knew Garner WELL, could have interrupted and told the officers to give Garner his ‘inhaler’ (everyone keeps ignoring this part of the incident, and I don’t know why. Don’t all asthmatics carry an inhaler ?).

She didn’t but the media won’t touch that with a ten foot pole. Perhaps he doesn’t carry one, I don’t know.

All I know is that when an asthmatic gets exerted, they can’t breath. If they don’t open up their airways, the brain is starved of oxygen. At some point, it quits telling the heart to pump. This matches the timeline and video/descriptions of the Garner incident.

He was unresponsive yet still breathing, very shallow. He was likely unconscious. The body was trying to speed blood from other parts to the brain, in an attempt to get oxygen, further straining the heart. After he got into the ambulance it was too late.

Were they giving him oxy in the ambulance ? Did they try to revive his heart with a defibrillator ? Details we don’t know (or at least I don’t).