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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 |
Hi,
You posted almost
exactly the same comments on another thread and I refuted your points but you didn't have the opportunity I guess to respond there. Instead you posted your incomplete and wrong information here. The highlights are that the Medical examiners office of the county listed his cause of death as a HOMICIDE not as a drug death or a cardiac death. A Homicide. For the full reply
CLICK HERE and page down to the comment posted at 1:27 PM. I will include the same snip from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office release giving the cause of death.
Please understand that I see how you can be confused by the difference between the descriptive findings on an autopsy and the conclusion as to cause of death. The ME is very aware that the actions of the LEO does not have to leave a physical finding to be the proximate cause of death. Of course all deaths ultimately are from cardiac arrest. The question is why did Mr. Lloyd's heart stop. Answer per the ME, he was a homicide victim.