[quote=The Grinch;2286497]Okay.
The part above is all wrong. Regarding the first paragraph, please provide evidence that there is a statistical trend of throat cartilage “breaking off in pieces” when people are rape choked. Cartilage is a connective tissue. It tends to stretch or tear when traumatized, rather than pieces breaking off.
Second and third paragraph, I have personally used the RNC choke to restrain hostile people, including up to the point where I released said person over to the police on more than one occasion. I was neither arrested, nor harassed for using excessive force.
There is a difference between sitting on top of someone in the mount and trying to crush their trachea versus restraining an out of control person with a RNC.
If you had significant experience with chokes other than the rape choke, you would know this.[/quote]
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/171780.php
^ ill dig up more from a forensic prespective.
It makes no difference if your sitting in the mount using two hands and as you said “rape choking”, if its your thumbs or your forearm makes no differense and obviously more damage could be done with the forearm.
Im glad you had positive results with being able to restrain some guy who was being a jackass to you. I dont doubt at all that you holding a guy who is going buck wild looks far better than you beating his face into a swollen lump to the police as they show up.
My point is/was that is while you were restraining that man, IF he felt he was unable to breath, leagally he could use any means neccessary to inspire you to let go, and all it would have to say is " i couldnt breath, i was afraid i was going to die and i couldnt get him to let go any other way"
A jury and judge will look at choking someone way differently than an officer in the field im sure. Worth mentioning is many police stations are doing away with officers being able to use chokes…to many frigging problems and law suits.
To add fuel to the fire, carotid/blood chokes can do major damage in the right individual as well, damage that may not surface for years.
Im not claiming to be an authority on law or anatomy, but what i have stated is true.