I can't breathe, Floyd cried out, while an American flag-clad policeman choked him to death
E LaMont Gregory MSc Oxon
Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in a prone position is inherently dangerous.
Neurobiology, tells us that the officer pictured above has his hand in his left pocket, muscles flexed, so that he can exert the maximum amount of pressure possible onto the neck of George Floyd. A technique that this officer had applied to members of the public on more than a dozen other occasions.
... dirty Harry
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner (ME) conducted Mr. Floyd’s autopsy on May 26, 2020. The full report of the ME is pending but the ME has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.
The defendant had his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total. Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr. Floyd was non-responsive.
Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in a prone position is inherently dangerous.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's autopsy report '... no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation', must be viewed in the same light, and with the same degree of confidence, as the statement by the Buffalo Police Department that the 75-year-old gentleman that the world watched being brutally shoved backwards and blood dripping from his right ear, had '... tripped and fell'.
Those officers did not stop to help him because they were rushing towards another person, which moments later they also brutalized. There are other individual police officers who acted improperly as the video reveals, if not charged by authorities, civil suits will have to be filed against them.
George Floyd was not the first knee-to-neck chokehold victim of the Minneapolis police department; he was in fact the 45th, known case. And, each of the other 44 incidences will have to be re-investigated.
And, it will not surprise anyone with medical knowledge that any significant trauma resulting from any of the previous chokehold incidences, with modern radiological and imaging techniques are discoverable. And, in those cases where the member of the public has since passed, exhumation is in order.
Some of the previous knee-to-neck chokeholds were particularly brutal, although, to our current knowledge, not lethal, immediately. At the same time, it is reasonable to assume that some of those individuals were, in fact, mortally wounded by the chokehold, and died prematurely as a result. And, there is reason to believe, since a number of the officers involved in those chokeholds are now in supervisory positions in the Minneapolis police department and police departments in localities across the US. In this regard, it will surprise no one, which police forces embraced them with open arms. It will surprise no one.
As the inquiry progresses, some of those involved will acknowledge their participation and request administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. However, there are a number of the hardened white supremacist police gang members - the dirty Harry officers - that will attempt to go underground, some with police administrative assistance. Nonetheless, they must be identified, located and removed immediately from any interaction with the public as a matter of urgency.
A thorough forensic review of all autopsy reports by the last few Medical Examiners from Hennepin County must be undertaken as well as a decades-long review of all hospital admissions, which resulted from public/police interactions.
The medical license of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner (ME) who conducted Mr. Floyd’s autopsy on May 26, 2020, which was designed to clear the offending police officer of harming the deceased in any way, is a contravention of medical standards and ethics, and should, after due and proper investigation of the facts, result in his removal from office and his license to practice medicine, revoked.