The doc was put on the stand. He was asked if fentanyl can cause respiratory arrest. HE not only said “yes” but noted that the major reason Fentanyl is avoided is because of its ability to stop the lungs. It is too potent to reliably use, one tiny overdose and you die.
He said this on stand. Watch the video.
He also stated that the does in Floyd’s blood was well over the level to kill.
Now, it is possible that as a routine user he might have built up some sort of immunity. Heroin users can do that. But, what has also been approved as evidence is his recent, prior visit to the ER for a fentanyl OD. Same symptoms, same complaints: “can’t breathe!”. In that case, tho, he made it to the ER in time. In that earlier case, tho, he wasn’t in the midst of committing a crime and didn’t put up a fuss with a bunch of coppers.
Apparently, this guy can’t learn. He goes from bad to worse.
that’s super helpful. thank you.
to Coulter’s point, the TRIAL is not going well.
But seems to me that illumination that is emerging in the trial is what establishes that he did from health plus drug cocktail (mostly cocktail).
That conclusion is not drawn from the coroner’s report, by itself, on the face of it. But the coroner himself, with the benefit of interrogation, seems to have stablished that conclusion.
Words matter, and I didn’t like the phrase the journalists used. Because if that were the case, there is NO WAY that a murder charge could be brought (well in a functioning criminal justice system, there I go again...assuming that we are talking about the world as it used to be).
It is “possible” that George Floyd was murdered....no matter how strung out on drugs he was. But for him to have been murdered, the accused must have intentionally acted in a way which was likely to result in real harm/death, and the action that the accused intentionally took must be the cause of death (sine qua non at least).
So theoretically ....George Floyd could’ve been murdered.
I do not see that the coroner’s report rules that out.
That said, it doesn’t give the DA any evidence that the accused also caused the decedent’s death. And apparently the cross x makes that possibility basically melt away to near nothing.
(But, like the OJ trial, we know how this will end and it has nothing to do with anything that I just wrote. Because we are in The Revolution).