*The results of the private/independent autopsy ordered by the family of George Floyd has been released.
Floyd’s death has been ruled as a “homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.”
The Floyd family findings come in the wake of those from the Hennepin County medical examiner whose conclusion was “underlying health conditions” could have contributed to Floyd’s death and that there were “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
“What we found is consistent with what people saw. There is no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death,” Dr. Michael Baden, one of the medical examiners who conducted the independent autopsy, said in a statement.
As has been reported and what the world saw was Floyd dying after a white officer, Derek Chauvin, choked him with his knee for nearly nine minutes. The incident was caught on video by a bystander, and that officer has since been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
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.@AttorneyCrump, the lawyer for the family of George Floyd, says the independent family autopsy found Floyd died “by asphyxia due to neck & back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.”
Big: Crump says physical acts by other officers also caused Floyd’s death. pic.twitter.com/5XsxQDLKHf
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 1, 2020
Benjamin Crump, one of the attorneys for Floyd’s family, is now calling for a first-degree murder charge for Chauvin based on the new findings.
“What we know is this: George Floyd was alive before his encounter with Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers, and he was dead shortly after that,” Crump said. “The tragic cause of this death is incredibly clear, and we are fiercely committed to justice for his family.”
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