As with the George Floyd case, the family claimed asphyxia, but this time: from a choke hold, and because "the police were all kneeling on him so his lungs couldn't expand and he couldn't breathe".

Thing is, the police officer tried to apply a blood choke, not a air-way choke. After fighting with the cops, Garner had a heart attack, and that's when he started struggling to breathe. Once he was in cuffs, all the cops got off of him.

He laid on the ground, with the cops holding him in a recovery position, struggling to breathe under the weight of his own fat, and suffering from a heart attack. Then the EMT's arrived... and did nothing.

We know that he was breathing when the police were on top of him because he was yelling and hyperventilating. When the EMT's arrive, you can see he is completely out. He basically looks dead. His chest isn't moving. The woman EMT claims she felt a pulse... but really didn't check for breathing at all. She kinda puts a hand on his diaphram... but it doesn't move either. It's only when the EMT's load him into the ambulance that they realize something has actually gone terribly wrong. By the time actual medics show up, they try to stimulate his heart, but now he's already dead. It's possible he did have some kind of a pulse. Typically, it's erratic when you have a heart attack and stop breathing.

None of the cops, bystanders, or EMT's seem to recognize how quietly people can die.

The cops are only responsible for Garner's death because the stress of the arrest may have induced the heart attack. ... and because illegally selling cigarettes is a stupid crime. But the blood choke didn't do anything, and the kneeling on him was to keep him from getting up.

I found the old r-EMS thread on Reddit that goes over it. The video that is linked in there was the second video of Garner's death, after the police had already gotten up off them. You can see from the responses they are all just going "what the fuck are you doing?!!" Only a handful jump onto the anti-police attitudes. The rest are listing out the shit that should have been done.

Anyways, when the courts got done with this incident, they didn't convict the cop who tried to apply a choke on him because although it wasn't procedure, he couldn't have known that Garner would die. Because of State Law, even Negligent Homicide, required some kind of intent on the part of the officer to basically kill Garner, or for him to be aware that his actions would kill Garner.

He couldn't have known that because that's not how the choke works, and he didn't want that, because he obviously stopped when Garner was subdued. The first video ends with Garner still alive while the Left screamed that we watched a video with Garner being murdered on it. The second video where he actually died from actual negligence is relatively unknown. That EMT crew never even faced charges.