He probably blacked out due to both having air blockage and blood flow restriction with that amount of pressure on his neck area..
That’s not how it’s playing out in the courtroom. “He probably” died of having three times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, ingested as the police arrived because he was in the middle of a drug deal.
Crowder has done this demo twice now. It looks bad, but it doesn’t choke. It was the drugs.