It doesn't matter a whole lot, really. Even if he was being violent (which there's no indication of so far), there are lots of ways several people can restrain a person without killing him. And when you put someone in a choke hold for several minutes, you're creating a situation where you might seriously harm or kill them and there are consequences for that.
People get charged with manslaughter if they get in a fight and the other person cracks their head on the pavement and dies, so why is this any different? There's arguably much more negligence in this instance where multiple people were restraining this person and he still kept pressure on his neck for several minutes.
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