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- "Floyd died from a low level of oxygen, and this caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused a PEA (pulseless electrical activity) arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop," Martin Tobin, a lung and critical care specialist at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital and Loyola University's medical school in Chicago, told Hennepin County District Court.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-1.5979639George Floyd died of oxygen loss, not pre-existing conditions ...
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Apr 8, 2021 · “This caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also cause a [pulseless electrical activity] arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop,” he said. “The cause of the low-level of oxygen...
Apr 8, 2021 · The lack of oxygen resulted in brain damage and caused his heart to stop, the witness said. Tobin, analyzing images of the three officers restraining Floyd for what prosecutors say was almost 9 1/2 minutes , testified that Chauvin’s knee was “virtually on the neck” more than 90% of the time.
- 'Pressure on His Chest and Back'
- Prevented from Expanding Chest
- 'That Is Not A Fentanyl Overdose'
Dr. Bill Smock, a Louisville, Ky., physician and expert on deaths from asphyxia, agreed that Floyd died "because he had no oxygen left in his body," as a result of "pressure on his chest and back." Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pressed a knee on the back of his neck and back for around nine minut...
Based on videos of the arrest, Tobin said, he calculated that half of Chauvin's weight , 91.5 pounds, came down directly on Floyd's neck. Tobin explained to jurors what happens as the space in the airway narrows. Breathing then becomes "enormously more difficult," he said, comparing it to "breathing through a drinking straw," although he later clar...
Meanwhile, Smock, under questioning by Blackwell, stressed that in his opinion, Floyd wasn't exhibiting the signs of someone who had suffered a fentanyl overdose. "When you watch those videos and we go through them, what is his respiration? He's breathing. He's talking, he's not snoring. He is saying, 'Please, please get off of me. I want to breath...
Apr 14, 2021 · George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm disturbance as a result of his heart disease, a forensic pathologist testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting prosecution experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen from the way he was pinned down.
Apr 8, 2021 · Both doctors testified that Floyd died of a lack of oxygen after he was pinned to the ground with his hands cuffed behind him and Chauvin's knee on his neck. The forensic toxicologist said...
Apr 15, 2021 · A number of medical experts called by prosecutors have said Mr Floyd died from a lack of oxygen because his breathing was constricted by the way he was held down. A cardiology expert rejected the ...
Apr 14, 2021 · George Floyd died due to lack of oxygen while being pinned down by police officers, expert tells Derek Chauvin trial. Prosecutors have claimed Mr Floyd's death was caused by the pressure...
