I don't believe keeping someone in chokehold is the only way.
I'm sure police around the world could benefit from your advice.... there is a racial problem in that black people are far more prone than other groups from expiring from oxygen deprivation (there was a case in New York in the 1980s about that as well).. I think if they had him handcuffed (and maybe footcuffed) that would have immobilized him enough but would also have caused outrage.
I answered the question - short version. yes.
I don't see them in the higher ups...
the BLM riots were about putting Trump in a no-win situation... if he calls in troops he's a nazi and if he does nothing he doesn't care...
BLM (and Biden) were both merely tools used by the democratic establishment (along with the digitocrati) to put Harris in the office. She was clearly their choice very early on.
After her terrible debate performances caused her to stop campaigning before the first primary they chose Biden as the tool to get her in the oval office.
I cannot imagine the democratic establishment bending over backwards and moving heaven and earth to give the nomination to Joe Biden for any other reason. He announced his VP would be a woman of color because he knew she had already been chosen... (and he's even referred to her as 'president' more than once in public).
I report. You decide.