Asphyxiation is something that kills you while you can’t breathe (like having a knee on your neck) not an hour later. Now you can argue that the asphyxiation caused whatever killed Floyd, but that makes that the cause of death, not asphyxiation. This shows the second coroners report is wrong because it states the cause of death as asphyxiation which is impossible (related to the knee) seeing as that was an hour earlier.
I think it's inconceivable that being pinned to the ground for 10 minutes with someone's knee on your neck is unrelated to you dieing 30 minutes later.
But then again what do I know? I'm not a pathologist. However, I just found this article written by a forensic pathologist.
TLDR: It criticises any 2nd autopsy as being innacurate compared to a 1st autopsy. States that the person doing the 2nd autopsy isn't 'independent' but an expert retained by the family. But also explains that the 1st autopsy found that the death was a homicide, caused by the arrest and while George Floyd's health and drug abuse were contributing factors they were not the cause.
Asphyxiation is something that kills you while you can’t breathe (like having a knee on your neck) not an hour later. Now you can argue that the asphyxiation caused whatever killed Floyd, but that makes that the cause of death, not asphyxiation. This shows the second coroners report is wrong because it states the cause of death as asphyxiation which is impossible (related to the knee) seeing as that was an hour earlier.
I think it's inconceivable that being pinned to the ground for 10 minutes with someone's knee on your neck is unrelated to you dieing 30 minutes later.
But then again what do I know? I'm not a pathologist. However, I just found this article written by a forensic pathologist.
TLDR: It criticises any 2nd autopsy as being innacurate compared to a 1st autopsy. States that the person doing the 2nd autopsy isn't 'independent' but an expert retained by the family. But also explains that the 1st autopsy found that the death was a homicide, caused by the arrest and while George Floyd's health and drug abuse were contributing factors they were not the cause.