The official coroner’s report came in for the death of George Floyd, and the family of the deceased is not buying it.
The official results are hardlining the fact that Floyd had not died of strangulation or asphyxiation. Rather, the results claim that he had died from a a combination of heart disease and ‘potential intoxicants in his system’ that were exacerbated by the restraint placed on him by police officers. This, if substantiated in the future, would be a critical blow in the legal argument, albeit the current social climate in escalating tension. The family has contacted and officially hired a well-known forensic pathologist Dr. Michale Baden for a secondary inspection and autopsy, without the intervention from State Authorities.
‘The family does not trust anything coming from the Minneapolis Police Department.
How can they?’ attorney Ben Crump said. ‘We already saw the truth.’ Baden is expected to travel down to Minneapolis this week for his review. The criminal complaint filed against Chauvin, 44, cited that preliminary findings from a Tuesday autopsy conducted by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner saw ‘no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxiation or strangulation’.
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Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease,’ said the complaint from the Hennepin County Attorney. ‘The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.’ The full medical examiner’s report is pending.
Attorneys for Floyd have now requested a second, independent autopsy, unhappy with the findings from the county medical examiner that “they claim create an ‘illusion’ of underlying health conditions being responsible for his death.
” Dr. Baden conducted a separate autopsy on Eric Garner, whose death in 2014 while being placed in an unauthorized chokehold by NYPD Officer Daniel Panteleo was also captured on video. Panteleo wasn’t criminally charged but was fired from the police force in 2019.
‘We’re going to take custody back of George Floyd’s body, and we’re bringing in Dr.
Michael Baden to perform an independent autopsy because we saw in the Eric Garner case and so many other cases where they have these people who work with the city come up with things that are such an illusion,’ Crump said. ‘They’re going to have their own autopsy.
We’re not going to rely on this DA or this city to tell us the truth. We already saw the truth. ‘He had asthma, he had a heart condition – all these things that are irrelevant when they were living, breathing, walking, talking, just fine until the police accosted them,’ Crump added.
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