A Gracie jiujitsu black belt shot this a few days after George Floyd's death demonstrating in no uncertain terms how easy it is to choke off someone's carotid arteries by kneeling on their neck. This should have settled the controversy then and there.
Here's the time in the video of the exact demonstration. The teacher doesn't even use his knee because he doesn't want to hurt his partner, he just uses his forearm to show how easy it is to choke a large man with pressure on that area.
In Brazilian jiujitsu a black belt indicates mastery; this is a martial arts master who has been training arterial chokes for years and years. He is a far greater authority on this subject than Tucker Carlson.

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