re: Floyd did not die from asphyxiation

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Maybe he wasn't a healthy person?

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Something along these lines is most likely what we are looking at. I'm guessing that's why the officer is listed as a "contributing factor" as opposed to the actual cause. Floyd may have had some medical condition (perhaps a heart condition / excited delirium syndrome) that killed him. A normal healthy person without this condition would have lived through the scenario. And the officer couldn't have known about the medical condition.