re: Floyd did not die from asphyxiation

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If you can talk. You can Breath!"

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Sigh.
For many, many reasons.

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the808bass

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I know you *REALLY WANT* it to be asphyxiation, but what do you say to this?

"While standing outside the car, Mr. Floyd began saying and repeating that he could not breathe."

Gosh I hope not. My mental picture of all such medical examinations or autopsies includes the ME/coroner eating a sandwich and resting it on the chest of the deceased at times.

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I found it odd the autopsy states so surely he did not die of asphyxiation, but does not state what he died of.

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I mean it says preliminary.

This was all suspect because if the cause of death was what people were assuming from video it should have quickly confirmed, right?

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"While standing outside the car, Mr. Floyd began saying and repeating that he could not breathe."

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Well then clearly putting a knee on his neck for nearly 10 minutes and even after he’s unconscious and bystanders are begging for them to check his pulse was the wrong option to then choose.

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Say wha…?

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it's there in that probable cause report

2nd page... 3rd full paragraph from the bottom... I quoted it on page 6

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The statement by Mr. Floyd that he couldn’t breathe early on could become significant.

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Which makes keeping him prone very weird. Why would the police restrain him if he couldn’t breath before he was on the ground? That makes no sense.

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Well then clearly putting a knee on his next for nearly 10 minutes and even after he’s unconscious and bystanders are begging for them to check his pulse was the wrong option to then choose.

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Not sure why people are acting like this isn’t part of the arrest.

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But those don’t negate the cop’s actions that also caused in outcome that likely would not have otherwise occurred from those other variables alone. Although that’s probably why they also didn’t charge him with a higher murder charge.

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I have said numerous times since seeing the video of the arrest and the officer's actions, and knowing that the guy died, that it's an open and shut case. Officer guilty as hell.
If I was on a jury though, and was presented with evidence of serious underlying conditions + plus heavy drug use or intoxication, I would not be able to find intent on the part of the officer.
You can say, well if the officer didn't detain him and hold him down, he wouldn't be dead, but you could also say, if he didn't try to pass funny money, then resist arrest, he wouldn't be dead either.

Guess we now know what the exculpatory evidence was.