Tur. Its day 10 of testimony in the Derek Chauvin Murder trial in minneapolis, and prosecutors continue to hammer home what they say killed George Floyd. The Medical Examiner ruled Floyds Death a homicide, that floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating Law Enforcements dual restraint of Neck Compression. But this charged an uproar. It was vague, incomplete and also noted Drug Use. Yesterday Pulmonologist Dr. Tobin said George Floyd dies of asphyxia, not Drug Use as Derek Chauvin held his knee on floyds neck. And today is a forensic pathologist who examined the evidence, including videos, and she says she agrees with the autopsy results but that it does not tell the full story. So if you put all this together, cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating Law Enforcement dual restraint of Neck Compression, what does that mean . It means to me that the activities of the Law Enforcement officers resulted in mr. Floyds death, and that specifically those activities were the subdual restrain
the second thing that s important about the respiratory rate of 22 is when you have somebody that the primary problem in the body is airway narrowing, where you have somebody where there is that the airways are being compressed and there s narrowing in the neck and narrowing in the chest, the physiological response to airway narrowing is a normal respiratory rate and that is what we have. so it s the expectant respiratory rate you see that s normal is the expected physiological response. if somebody who has airway narrowing. so, doctor, you ve covered the mechanisms of how low oxygen occurs. as a commission, did you observe the results of low oxygen in the video showing the last minutes of george floyd s life? yes. what did you observe? i mean, in terms of what we are seeing is the changes in his facial appearance, this becomes crucially important. again, it s seeing the effects of the low oxygen. have you seen this effect in other patients as a clinician? yes,
bible of breathing. dr. tobin says george floyd died of a low level of oxygen. he said he watched videos of floyd on the ground hundreds of times, and he came prepared with a 3-d animation to illustrate what happens. see it right there. the doctor at one point addressed the jury directly, demonstrating on his own neck where the air was cut off. i should warn you, some of his testimony is pretty difficult to hear. did you consider where mr. chauvin s left knee was during the encounter? yes. for officer chauvin s left knee is virtually on the neck for the vast majority of the time. and when you say vast majority, are you able to be more specific? more than 90% of the time, in my calculation. they were forced up against his chest, up tight, forcing it high up. you have to keep in mind, the opposite side of this is the street. so he was being squashed between the two sides. basically, on the left side of his lung, it was almost like a surgical humanectomy. it was almost
you also testified you participate and continued to participate in the training provided by mpd and is continued to be provided? yes, that s correct. is this training practical and useful? yes, it is. why do you say that? our officers are being particularly patrol officers are being called to, again, respond in a way in our community s needs and it s hundreds of thousands of calls they respond to. and we are a very interesting profession that in some professions your body of work matters and to an extent to the minneapolis police department, our body of work matters, but it s more internally. but to our communities for the most part, your body of work doesn t hold as much value. we don t have the luxury of being able to go up to a community member for the first time and say, you know, those 99 calls i was on before went really well. trust me on this one. we don t have the luxury of doing that. our communities are going, no, what have you done for me lately? this
minneapolis police chief said the acts that chauvin took were totally unnecessary. the witnesses on the stand this morning was the doctor who pronounced george floyd dead at the hospital. was your leading theory of george floyd s cardiac arrest oxygen deficiency? that was one of the more likely possibilities. i felt that at the time, based on the information i had, it was more likely than the other possibilities. and, doctor, is there another name for death by oxygen deficiency. asphyxia. it s well known that any amount of time a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate cpr markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome. none of the officers on the scene performed cpr on george floyd. the doctor said he believed floyd s death was not likely from drug use but instead from suffocation or asphyxia. the defense team tried to combat that conclusion. so when someone ingests fentanyl, it can cause them to feel very sleepy because of an increased carbon dioxide