Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe," it means he could breathe.http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/US-police-chokehold-death/2014/12/05/id/611447/