One can understand that it might be hard to breathe with six cops piled on you, but the fact that you are obese can make it to where you have a stroke from exerting all that energy.
Were they actually ‘choking’ him? I don’t know for sure.
Were they hoping to just get him unconscious ? Probably.
Were they intentionally trying to kill him? I doubt it.
Are they being treated as if that is what they wanted? Yes.
Yeh — they had him in an illegal choke hold that was outlawed 20 years ago —
And there were police on top of him constraining his diaphragm which is essential to breathing.