I still don't think garrotes are as dangerous as you say. I tried to Google statistics for annual deaths and nothing came up. But now if you Google ligature that's a whole new ball game.
You don't come across a proper garrote very often. They'll always use the term "ligature" instead, for whatever reason. A real garrote will be made of wire and will have handles. Occasionally they'll even be attached to leather wrist bands or gloves so THEY CAN'T BE TAKEN AWAY, and you can pull even harder.
That doesn't look much like self defense to me. And this guy's not even squeezing all that hard. It's a posed picture.
Nobody here will ever convince me you can do that in self defense.
Add a foot to the back of the victim's knee, to put him at a lower level, and then take him to the ground, and I don't care who he is - he's not fighting his way out of that.
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