(December 5, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I will admit that if you can talk, you have at least some ability to move air out of your mouth. However he still died from suffocation, so apparently he couldn't breathe enough to stay alive. His health condition doesn't matter. the fact that he could still breathe slightly doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that he suffocated to death because they were choking him after he was down.
Body cams would really be only half of it. The other half is actually punishing police for murdering people.
Here's a dirty little secret. A chokehold can deprive your brain of oxygen *without* completely impeding your ability to breath. The fact that he could speak is irrelevant. That simply means his airway was not blocked.
Compressing one or both carotid arteries will limit or cut off the blood flow to the brain, leading to unconsciousness and eventually cardiac arrest. Death is a predictable outcome of applying a chokehold, and it's an inevitable outcome if the hold is applied for too long.
Yeah, it's a damn good way to subdue someone. It's also very easy to kill someone, even unintentionally.
