Salmo,

In WA we do in quests which I hear are similar to the gj. The main purpose is to judge whether the use of force was legal and reasonable.

As for the "choke hold", in the video I saw it wasn't a choke. It almost resembled an attempted far hand cross face take down. It came out with his arm across the neck because of the height disparity.

Knee across the neck on a suspect is actually a taught cuff ing position. What should've happened is the main officer should've grabbed an arm instead of fishing for hands. And one of the other officers should've grabbed the other arm into a straight wrist twist to gain compliance and get Gardner to a cuffing position.

I wasn't there but there looked to be a lot of hesitation by the back up officers until one took action.

It's easy to Monday morning quarterback stuff like this. I wasn't there nor do I n ow the details of what happened. Just what I saw