Hey Rod?
The coroner’s report says “Traumatic Asphyxiation”.
That doesn’t mean choking.
It’s a specific medical term. You can find it on Wikipedia in 30 seconds.
It means compressing the chest so much the blood flows backwards from the heart.
The ex-policeman in jail on $500,000 bond on (open and shut) 3rd degree murder and manslaughter (+), had his knee on the guy’s neck, and was nowhere near compressing his chest.
This was weasel words by the coroner.
To keep the city from getting sued?
To stop riots?
Or because the ex-cop had ten excessive force complaints over the years(*) , and the county attorney who didn’t prosecute him was Amy Klobuchar?
She’s the current US Senator from Minnesota, and had been a hopeful to be a VP on the Biden ticket.
Think just maybe there was pressure on the coroner to make this all go away?
(+) Minnesota State Law doesn’t require intent but “depraved indifference.” Being trained in CPR, and keeping your knee on a guy’s neck for 2 1/2 minutes after another COP tells you he doesn’t have a pulse, is open-and-shut guilty.
On live uncut video from 6 feet away.
(*)(one was shooting a nutcase with a knife, so it doesn’t count)
I thought Dr. Baden was going to Minneapolis to do a second autopsy, at the request of the family. Any news on that?
Thanks very much! Excellent take on what is going on. So many players so many tentacles to this op. You framed it really well.