Posted on 06/01/2020 4:19:54 PM PDT by NautiNurse
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Fox 9 reports that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s report released Monday ruled the death of George Floyd a homicide.
The updated report states that on May 25, George Floyd experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by a law enforcement officer(s). Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is now charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection to Floyd’s death.
Earlier Monday, the attorneys for the family of George Floyd shared the findings of their separate autopsy, which determined that Floyd died of “asphyxia from sustained pressure” on his neck and back.
The new Medical Examiner’s report also notes other significant conditions such as arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease; fentanyl intoxication; and recent methamphetamine use.
Last week, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office released a preliminary report in which it was determined that Floyd likely died from a combination of underlying health conditions, being restrained by police, and any potential intoxicants in his system.
There was reportedly no physical evidence that he died of asphyxia of strangulation.
BZZZZT.
Wikipedia says this. I found it in 30 seconds days ago before anyone else brought it up. Traumatic asphyxia, or Perthes's syndrome, is a medical emergency caused by an intense compression of the thoracic cavity, causing venous back-flow from the right side of the heart into the veins of the neck and the brain.
Squeezing the chest so hard, blood flows the wrong way out of the heart.
Nothing in God's Green Earth to do with a knee on the neck.
"Worked up" is determining why a patient is ill, assessing their immediate needs, and resuscitating a patient who has crashed. None of those apply here, so I am not "worked up," as you say.
Why would they administer it when they didn’t know he was on it? I doubt Floyd told them he was high on Fentanyl, or do cops regularly dose suspects with Naloxone?
You do realize Chauvin and Floyd were acquainted, don’t you? Maybe Chauvin knew Floyd was a prevaricator and a complainer and didn’t want to let a large man loose again, especially considering how much trouble it was to get him under control. Ppl aren’t perfect and mistakes were made. Unfortunately, these mistakes cost a man his life, and Chauvin will be made to pay for his part. However, Floyd was responsible for his poor choices too, which you don’t seem to want to acknowledge.
Got it. Thanks for that! ;o)
He held a woman at knife point while his friends ransacked her house. That has no bearing on the four cops actions of course, but if I hear another person say he was a “gentle giant”, I’m going to scream.
The anarchy and wild madness we’re seeing was just waiting for a catalyst. The death of George Floyd provided it. Who and what has orchestrated it is the real question- it may well be Soros and company, but whoever it is, is organized and prepared to move quickly and boldly across the whole country. It’s stunning.
Racial element? Methinks it’s has to do with being lied to too many times with left wing “narratives” racing ahead of the facts-see Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. It’s little wonder that every little scrap of information is scrutinized endlessly when the media are lapdogs of the Left.
fyi--Minneapolis PD began carrying naloxone in their medical bags back in 2018.
The Muslim cop that shot and killed Justine Diamond in Minneapolis comes to mind. Didn’t hear much about it, other than here, did you? Of course, she was white and he was Somali. Don’t tell me to leave race out of it. It’s the whole reason for this situation.
He died from a heart attack, not a fentanyl overdose.
I highly doubt that. Most posters on here would be saying the same thing if Floyd had been white.
Yes, naloxone is given routinely to unconscious patients. If the recipient quickly responds to the naloxone, then opioid OD is clinically positive. Sometimes it takes multiple doses to bring the person back to alert.
When naloxone has no immediate effect, then other sources for the altered mental status are evaluated. This would include a finger stick blood glucose to check for hypoglycemia.
Look, no problem if you changed your views, but I quoted your own words to you, and it appears you are taking a different stand on the same topic. If it wasn’t the officers knee, what is the “negligent homicide” you’re speaking of?
The cop was wearing gloves the same color as his pants-they weren’t in his pockets. As to Trump calling out the military, he said he would do so IF Governers of the respective states didn’t do so and the riots continued.
First of all, in Minnesota, it’s not the DA, it’s the County Attorney.
Second, guess who the County Attorney was for a good bit of the kneecap ex-cop’s career?
Time’s up!
Amy Klobuchar.
Current Democrat Party US Senator from Minnesota.
Up till a week or so ago when this started she was considered a leading contender for VP on the Biden ticket.
Think there might’ve been CONSIDERABLE pressure on the Coroner to downplay the police role in the man’s death, so as not to affect her chances?
And I notice you’re going for pure speculation about “everything the media says”. The media blindly quoted the cops saying “he was actively resisting” until the first storefront video came out, of him sitting against the wall with his hands cuffed behind his back, calmly speaking to the police as they raised him to his feet.
See, the Probable Cause Document discussed this, and said that as soon as the cuffs went on, the now-dead guy became compliant. Not the media.
And the thing is, Minneapolis/St.Paul have had a number of high-profile deaths under the police.
There was one in Vadnais Heights, north-ish of St. Paul, where a man was pulled over for a traffic violation. He calmly and politely told the officer, just like you’re supposed to, “I have a concealed carry permit.”
He reached for his glove compartment for the permit, and the policeman shot and killed him on the spot.
The man’s girlfriend and child were IN THE CAR.
Reckless endangerment much (cause if the guy had shot, they’d have made up that lie to throw at him).
So they charged that cop with first degree murder, and he walked free.
Unlike the kid who did nothing wrong and saw his father killed before his eyes by an impulsive bullying coward.
And you know as well as I do how hard it is to get a concealed carry in a blue city. You have to be squeaky clean.
Then there’s the Mohammed Noor / Justine Damond case.
This was in a good neighborhood by one of the lakes downtown.
She’s from Australia.
She thought she heard a rape in progress and called 911 like you’re supposed to.
She ran outside in her pajamas to meet the patrol car.
Inside the car was a Somali policeman, who apparently didn’t do so super hot on the policeman exam, but who was hired on by a lesbian police chief (save the jokes, I mean literally lesbian) for “diversity” and to “reach out to the Somali community.”
And a rookie: the Somali’s reputation on the force was so bad, any one else with any seniority refused to ride with him.
So the Somali cop fires his gun without warning FROM INSIDE THE PATROL CAR, firing past his fellow officer in the other seat, hitting a blonde white woman in the stomach, resulting in her death. The very woman who had F***ING CALLED 911 for help.
And they circled the wagons. It took 8 or 9 MONTHS to arrest him.
He got convicted (I can’t remember if 3rd degree or manslaughter) and is serving 12 1/2 years with possibility of parole after I think 8 years.
Which brings us to Mr. Kneecap.
The difference here despite what you like to pretend, isn’t politics or race baiting.
It’s that the cops held down a handcuffed man, with their knee on his neck, in public, in front of numerous (white) witnesses, one of whom was a 10-year martial arts expert who tried to say how dangerous a neck hold was, and another was some form of first responder, who begged Mr. Kneecap to check for a pulse.
He didn’t.
He kept his knee on the neck after the (handcuffed and on the ground) guy passed out.
After one of the other cops who had been helping to hold the guy down, checked for a pulse AND DIDN’T FIND ONE.
This is NOT a rumor from Jesse Jackson or anything.
It’s not an exclusive unnamed source on CNN.
This is taken from the Probable Cause document to arrest the policeman, and is based on a live unedited 9-minute long phone video from 6 feet away. And with multiple eyewitnesses presesnt.
So the policeman is charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter, and bail set at $500,000. In about 3 days.
My concern is simply that the Constitution is supposed to protect us from this kind of stuff at the hands of the government.
What part of FREE in ‘Free Republic’ are you having problems with, again?
No biggie, no harm no foul.
First autopsy said no evidence of asphyxiation. But of course the victim had a heart condition and drugs in his system. Strange toxicology tests usually take weeks. Thankfully the family called in Dr. Baden for an independent autopsy. From my 20 years in prehospital care narcan would not have been appropriate in Mr. Floyd’s case. The Hennepin County medical examiners is trying to bail out the cops and politians
I do not know if they were tested and said as much.
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