It’s a chokehold on the ground. Nuff said.
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As soon as Pantaleo could reposition his left arm on the ground, he was applying pressure to the right side of Garner’s neck with the top of his forearm with the palm of his left hand facing outward. Hemorrhaging is nothing more than bruising. It’s not a cause of death or evidence of choking. There’s no other evidence of choking and there was no indictment.
Pressure caused by a chokehold and pile on his body cause his death and his poor health per medical examiner. Arms locked around a neck is a chokehold, whether on windpipe or just neck. It’s not complicated.
No indictment, sure — what did the DA lead with? We need pre-FDR days of common law grand juries then. Hardly matters since public outrage and raw video footage show results of excessive force.