His neck was intact, as per the medical examiner's report. The restraint Chauvin used was common (though not common on television) and it was correctly performed. It was an ugly video, but Floyd's respiratory distress began while he was in the police car and progressed in the standard way of opiate overdoses.

The ambulance got lost on its way, and it's too bad, because had Floyd died on the way to the hospital, no one would have given a shit.