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Originally Posted by Biggles

The media story is that George Floyd died from asphyxiation—“I can’t breathe”—from a police officer’s knee on his neck. This story is not supported by the autopsy and toxicology reports.
The autopsy report says Floyd died of a heart attack and that no life-threatening injuries were inflicted by police restraint. The medical examiner found no physical evidence to “support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.” The toxicology report says that the concentration of Fentanyl in Floyd’s blood was more than three times the fatal dose. Fentanyl is a dangerous opioid. Reports that the coroner ruled Floyd’s death a homicide are incorrect. The word “homicide” does not appear in the report.
As for Floyd’s neck, the autopsy report states there are “no areas of contusion or hemorrhage . . . The cervical spinal column is palpably stable and free of hemorrhage.”
Excited Delirium Syndrome (EXD) typically results from fatal drug overdose. The condition results in breathing problems and cardiopulmonary arrest. These were the symptoms that Floyd showed.
The full Coroner Report can be found by clicking on the following link:
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/henn...3700_Floyd.pdf

You did a great job of linking the autopsy report but not of understanding it. He did not have three times the fatal dose of fentanyl. I have no idea where you come up with that number but it is wrong. Your claim that the word homicide does not appear in the physical autopsy report is correct. That is a report of physical and lab findings. It is not the report of cause of death. As your entire premise is that he died from a drug overdose and heart attack and that the officers just happened to be there I offer you the actual image and link to the report, not from the private pathologist who did a second autopsy, but from the medical examiner's office who did the first one and to which you linked.. READ THIS For those who do not click on links I will post a snip of the highlight which lists the official cause of death of Mr. Lloyd.

Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual,
restraint, and neck compression
Manner of death: Homicide [my font]

Note that the use of the term homicide by a medical examiner is not a legal finding but a medical one. That means Mr. Lloyd was killed, he did not die of natural causes or of a drug overdose. If you wish to educate yourself about excited delirium and how it does not apply to Mr. Lloyd, read THIS from MedpageToday.com