“The criminal complaint, citing the autopsy, said that Floyd did not die from strangulation but a combination of being restrained along with various underlying medical conditions including heart disease and hypertension.”
I think the actions of the police were sickening but I want to say that the Freeper lynch mob should be happy and the rest, as they say, is cherry on top as America burns to the ground. The left is winning this. Floyd was the bait and the next great crisis after Corona. We navel gaze as the left conspires constantly and can turn any crisis to political gold.
wish i was his lawyer..id destroy this case in an hour.....
“The criminal complaint, citing the autopsy, said that Floyd did not die from strangulation but a combination of being restrained along with various underlying medical conditions including heart disease and hypertension.”
Technically, this is not precisely accurate.
The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.
That does not actually say what Floyd died from. It says three things that likely contributed to his death, while noting no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. The final autopsy may find, for example only, that Floyd died of a heart attack, and that the restraint by police, and Floyd's health conditions and intoxicants likely were contributing factors.
That would not be quite the same as a finding that the cause of death was all of those factors. Those would only be likely contributing factors to the cause of death, but not what he died from, the cause of death.
A finding of a heart attack could also mean that it was the heart attack that rendered Floyd unconscious, calling into question if Officer Chauvin ever exerted enough force to the location which would do so.
The final autopsy may find more strongly, but this preliminary report only states that the police restraint was one of several likely contributing factors. That alone would not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that any specific one of the cited factors was, in fact, a contributing factor to the cause of death.