BREAKING: Independent autopsy shows George Floyd was asphyxiated
indicates that he was asphyxiated, and that the death was a homicide.of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s review. The medical examiner said there was no physical evidence of asphyxia, and suggested that his death was the result of the combined effects of the police restraint, underlying medical conditions and possible intoxication.
Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney who represents Floyd’s family, held a press conference with two medical examiners on Monday to announce the results of the independent autopsy. Gov. Tim Walz has put the attorney general, Keith Ellison, in charge of the prosecution following requests from the Floyd family. The Hennepin County Attorney’s office has being accused of unnecessarily delay in filing the charge against Chauvin, and of failing to charge the other three officers who were at the scene.
“George Floyd was a healthy young man,” Crump said. “The officers killed him based on a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes, and two knees to his back compressing his lungs.”
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