There doesnt have to be damage to his neck. If I put someone in a chokehold I could make them pass out fairly quickly and if I kept it up could kill them, and there might not be any actual damage to their neck. Its the lack of oxygen or blood flow that killed them. Now do that to someone with heart disease and on a cocktail of drugs like George was and you make it more likely they die.

Also it doesnt really matter if kneeling on his neck actually caused his death. The point is that it COULD, and if someone happens to die while you're doing it guess what, u done fucked up son, and thats what happened to Chauvin, who did it while being filmed no less, in todays political climate. So again, it was criminally stupid and unnecessary, since he already had the guy in cuffs.

I'm not saying he should have received all the charges he did. It was obviously political, and the fact the jury found him guilty of ALL charges with a pretty quick deliberation makes it likely they were scared shitless of finding him innocent of anything and/or motivated by the same media onslaught and black worship the rest of the country is.