The way he collapsed approaching the patrol car, it looked like something was wrong already.
I’m betting he had multiple drugs in his system. His demeanor when he was first contacted by police was a dead giveaway.
Won’t matter to the rioters. They’ll be out tonight probing the defenses.
He was drunk or on something according to the shops employee who called 911 on him.
In the video I have seen where he is walked across the street to a patrol car he is a bit wobbly and does stumble a little before he is put into a patrol car.
Do not know how he got out of the car onto the ground on the opposite side of the patrol car in which he was seated that part of the video I saw was not shown.
He was very drunk and he told the officers when they came to the car window that he was having trouble breathing. That’s why he couldn’t stand up very well. I’d suspect he had a cerebral aneurysm from being stood on in his agitated condition...the first accounts I read said that the officer took his foot off (after 8 minutes) only when blood gushed from Loyd’s mouth and nose. But we shall see.
Cutting off Oxygen to the brain via heavy carotid pressure for almost 9 minutes, and over 2 minute after he became unresponsive would seem to be plenty of a “contributive” factor...on an already subdued person.