The day in court. Just a reminder, you are still under oath. Reporter todays testimony. More cops taking the stand, against formerofficer Derek Chauvin. In your opinion, does defendants use of force, during that time period, need to be reasonable within the entire time period . Yes. Reporter but one of the more significant exchanges came, when special agent took the stand, an agent with the Minnesota Bureau of criminal apprehension that led the investigation into the events of may 25th. The defense played him video from the scene. Publish exhibit 1007. And im going to ask you, sir, to listen to mr. Floyds voice. Did you hear that . Yes, i did. Did it appear that mr. Floyd said, i ate too many drugs . Yes, it did. Reporter but, minutes later, prosecutors played a longer clip from the same video. Having heard it, in context, youre able to tell what mr. Floyd is saying there . Yes, i believe mr. Floyd was saying, i aint do no drugs. So, thats a little different than what you were asked ab
How a person died. If there were a thrombus, what would that look like . If we find a thrombus, if the person dies quickly, we wont see anything in the heart muscle. People need to survive for hours from their acute cardiac event before we can see changes in their heart. Again, if a person dies very quickly from a coronary event, we can only infer what happened based on the fact that they have bad coronaries and the circumstances of their death. We wouldnt expect the heart muscle to look abnormal. If the heart muscle shows damage from a clot, what does that look like . That depends on how long the clot has been there and how long the person survived. Theres a generally good progression of changes we see very, very early. All you might see under the microscope is some of the heart cells look wavy and abnormal. They take on way more pigment after that. They look much brighter under the microscope. As the heart cells start to die, that necrosis brings in an inflammatory reaction from the