Posted on 06/01/2020 3:23:03 PM PDT by Valpal1
... a private autopsy conducted by two doctors found he died of asphyxia, which happens which pressure is placed on certain parts of the body, limiting the flow of oxygen to the brain and shutting down organs.
Hours later, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner issued a new report saying that he died of "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression."
The medical examiner's report also listed "arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease," "fentanyl intoxication" and "recent methamphetamine use" as "other significant conditions."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
(shrugs) That’s what all trials are.
Most people do not seem to realize there are always experts whose opinion is opposite of other experts...
Indeed.
Did the fentanyl stop his breathing, or did the meth stop his heart?
Remember dose makes the poison. If the drugs in his system had been sufficient to do either of those things, it would have said so with cause of death as overdose.
And that would still not exonerate an officer who kept his knee on the victims neck for nearly three minutes after he became unresponsive/no pulse instead of rendering 1st aid.
How long can you hold your breath?
If the cop hadn’t spent almost 9 minutes on his neck - the last 3 after he had become unresponsive, we wouldn’t be having this mess in the news...I don’t doubt that lack of blood to the brain was a big influence on his death.
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