re: Derek Chauvin seriously injured in knife attack in prison

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If Floyd had not sucked down a rock of fentanyl, and was sober at the time rather than under psychotropic influence, it is extraordinarily likely he would have behaved differently during the encounter and not have required restraint at all.

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peaking of idiotic unscientific nonmedically based conjecture…

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on the matter

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Weren’t you the user that got bent out of shape because I told you “whoopsies”?

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Then he posted “whoopsies” as if it were some sort of gotcha

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You cant hide flamboyance.

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Bill Smock, a legal forensic medicine specialist, surgeon, and former emergency room doctor, also testified "you can be fatally strangled, die of asphyxia, and have absolutely no bruising."

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Floyd cried out, "I can't breathe" more than 20 times. Officers can be heard saying on body-camera video that if he could talk, he could breathe.
Tobin said that is a "dangerous" assumption because it doesn't mean someone still will be breathing in the next moment. Being able to speak meant Floyd's brain was functioning, Tobin said, and it meant he did respirate the moment before.
"It gives you a huge, false sense of security because very shortly after that, we're going to see that he has a major loss of oxygen in that he moves his leg," Tobin said. "So it tells you how dangerous is that concept of ... 'If you can speak, you can breathe.' Yes. That is true. On the surface, but highly misleading, very, very dangerous."
A normal trachea has a diameter between the size of a quarter and a dime, Tobin said. When the trachea is restricted to 15% of that, he said, "you are still able to speak."

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