If you look closely at the video, the CACs knee is on HIS CAROTID ARTERY. That's what would mimic coronary artery disease by restricting the blood flow to his brain.
This coroner is full of shit and an independent autopsy should be conducted.
Even Jon Bone Jones has spotted it and called it a "blood choke" that any basic level jujitsu fighter knows.
Not to ride too hard with this, but I've had this shit on my spirit for over a week now.
Days before that dumbass mayor/governor/whatever said that if you can talk, you can breathe (which I knew was coming, anyway, but still...) I've been on this. Because one of the big reasons neckholds are not allowed is specifically because there are a dozen ways to kill someone without actually choking them.
And a person that has their blood flow cut off isn't going to have the presence of mind to say, "Hey, he's cutting off my blood supply..." In their minds, they're losing consciousness, they're panicking, so they will say the one thing that their oxygen deprived brain will register: that they can't breathe.
I guess unless you get lifted like Radio fuckin' Raheem you just had a bad day. Natural causes. And even if, even if that were the case, it still wouldn't make sense to stand on a dude's neck. So what the fuck?
And the fact that some people want to sit on their hands over this shit every time it happens... well, I can understand why some cities are burning right now. I wouldn't do it, but I get it.