Blood chokes are great for incapacitating individuals but do it wrong and it can be fatal, hence the reason they "watered" it down from the V "choke hold" to the vascular neck restraint which goes up under the armpit.
Hard to get a charge against the police officer other than negligence for applying a tactic that was against policy ect. Other factors come into play, size disparity, what the suspect said, resisting arrest, amount of police officers vs. suspect ect. All taken into account. Also the officer who applied the choke hold, what was his reason/thinking for using the hold?
