{"id":212604,"date":"2020-08-27T05:36:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T05:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212604"},"modified":"2020-08-30T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T07:38:13","slug":"court-filings-medical-examiner-thought-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212604","title":{"rendered":"Court filings: Medical examiner thought George Floyd had ‘fatal level’ of fentanyl in system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox9 Staff \u2013 Aug 26, 2020<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>New exhibits filed in the case against the four former Minneapolis Police Officers accused of murdering George Floyd suggest the Hennepin County Medical Examiner thought George Floyd\u2019s fentanyl levels were at a potentially \u201cfatal level\u201d, but his and other medical examiner\u2019s findings showed he died of a combination of factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Six pieces of evidence were filed in the case Tuesday one day after former officer Tou Thao\u2019s attorneys requested the release of the full autopsy reports from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner and the private medical examiners hired by George Floyd\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Armed Forces Medical Examiner filed a memorandum agreeing with the Hennepin County Medical Examiner\u2019s final conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Floyd’s death was a homicide, saying, \u201cHis death was caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine and fentanyl intoxication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, two other memos filed Tuesday from the Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office about conversations with Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker paint a different picture about the nature of Floyd\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one memorandum filed May 26 after a virtual meeting with Baker, the Attorney\u2019s Office said Baker concluded, \u201cThe autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.\u201d Baker told the attorney his investigation was incomplete pending a toxicology report, however.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other memorandum filed June 1 by the Attorney\u2019s Office indicated Baker said Floyd\u2019s level of fentanyl was \u201cpretty high,\u201d and a potentially \u201cfatal level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“[Dr. Andrew Baker] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death,\u201d the June 1 memo said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the new documents Tuesday was a memorandum outlining the findings from the independent medical examiners hired by the Floyd family, who list Floyd\u2019s cause of death as \u201ctraumatic asphyxia due to the compression of his neck and back during restraint by police,\u201d as was evident on bystander videos of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

The memo admits the findings could be incomplete because they were awaiting microscopic slides, pictures and other evidence from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner\u2019s report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ignored by almost all the media, autopsy finds \u201cno physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Unreported_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212631,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212604\/revisions\/212631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}