The two autopsy reports aren’t actually all that different in their conclusions, according to forensic pathologists and medical experts. Read more, via FiveThirtyEight:
who pressed his knee into Floyd’s back for 8 minutes.
. Take the confusion over asphyxiation. As he was dying, Floyd told the police officers that he couldn’t breathe, eventually stopped speaking and then went limp. So it surprised a lot of people when the autopsy reports came across as saying that they’d found no evidence of asphyxiation. But there’s no medical literature of what happens to a person’s body when someone kneels on their neck for more than eight minutes, as, the Minneapolis police officer now charged with second-degree murder, did to Floyd. So no medical examiner can call up that data and compare it to what they found in Floyd’s body, Williams told me.
Melinek, Carter and Williams all believe this is a real diagnosis that really does cause death in some situations — though Carter added that restraint can contribute to those deaths. But Freeman isn’t so sure excited delirium is a legitimate cause of death. The dead people diagnosed with it tend to be young, black males who died in police custody, he said.
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