re: Choke Hold Ban

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- Chaotic environments
- Unhealthy suspects (drugged, bad hearts, etc.)
- Choking them until they stop resisting, almost certainly implying a choke out rather than a tap out

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You should actually look into the bodily processes that go into passing out from a choke. It’s insanely safe to be choked unconscious unless you have an aneurism or a stroke which is rare.

Next time that you get a RNC or guillotine applied to you, notice that you feel like your head is going to explode from a blood pressure spike, not like you’re being deprived of blood. That’s because a chokehold actually makes your intracranial blood pressure rise (not drop like most people believe), and your body responds by dialating the blood vessels in your brain to equalize what it’s perceiving as your body’s blood pressure going haywire. Long story short, you pass out because of the sudden blood pressure drop in your skull as a result of your body dilating those blood vessels.

Very safe, very temporary, isn’t really affected by other health conditions in the body. Thought the BJJ guys on this board would find that interesting, I certainly did

ETA: it also takes about 5 minutes extra of having a chokehold applied while you’re unconscious to die. It’s hard as frick to kill someone with one