re: Officer in Eric Garner case: I never used a choke hold

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Linked above.

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You're obviously far more versed on this from an anatomical standpoint so I'm not going to try to bluff my way out of this.

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Okay.
So simply put, cutting off the airway i.e., airway obstruction resulting in death of a strong individual causes coincident swelling of the lungs known as negative inspiratory pressure pulmonary edema (NIPPE). Chest compression as cause of death does not cause pulmonary edema. It's sort of an either or picture. The fact the poor fellow was saying "I can't breathe, I can't breathe" is far more compatible with compression FWIW.