"𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥. 𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴."

I'm going to disagree with you on that. I am less inclined to call it reckless than you. The carotid hold was used for years as a more humane method of subduing someone than a beatdown. The police quit using it because of the "why don't you just..." from people who think they should be able to subdue a chimpanzee. In the Marine Corps that choke was a part of our training, and we used it on each other. True, the training was about killing people, but we trained it without killing each other.