This is not the first account of sources telling the court that George Floyd has died through the cause of asphyxia, meaning that he had low oxygen before he passed away.

Dr. Lindsey Thomas testifies and continues details on how his death is related to the suffocation that the officer, Derek Chauvin, has caused to the culprit. The autopsy does not reveal the exact cause, but there was a “unique” amount of documentation which gave her records of how his death played out.

Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County Medical Examiner, testified that Floyd’s cause of death was through “Cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement subdual restraint and neck compression,” which in response, she says yes.

Dr. Thomas says that there’s nothing to prove physically that the cause of death was due to low oxygen, but there are different ways to show that it had been through lack of oxygen. In Floyd’s autopsy, there were tiny blood vessels that had burst in his eye — one example for his cause of death.

More signs have appeared, new details showing that there were substantial injuries on his face, shoulders, and wrists pertaining cuts along his skin. With this information and what the footage reveals to the court is that “he’s [Floyd] being forcibly restrained and subdued and trying to move into a position by rubbing his face against the ground, pulling against his handcuffs and pushing with his shoulder.”

The court brings in evidence of Chauvin’s posture at the time he laid his knee against Floyd’s neck, explaining the logistics behind it. The doctor comments that “this is a death where both the heart and lungs stopped working and the point is that it is due to subdual restraint and compression,”

Others who have testified had similar statements to her, telling the court that Floyd’s life had been squeezed out of him and crushed by the weight of Chauvin’s body through his knee. The autopsy was a great way for “ruling things out,”

She even mentions that Floyd did not have any pre-existing lung issues and injuries, which ruled out having a stroke on Floyd’s end. Alongside the fact that there were no signs of a rupture in his heart, that means there were no recent heart attacks.

Nelson cross-examines the pathologist, explaining that there is “no objective evidence showing any pressure to the back of Mr. Floyd,” in which she responds, “There is nothing in the autopsy that is correct,”

She tells jurors that Chauvin still has a “contributing mechanism,” and that the cause of death was asphyxia as Chauvin kept the restraint on Floyd for a straight nine minutes and a half.

The pathologist also coincides with Dr. Baker’s examination of Floyd’s death being a homicide.

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