Former medical examiner says George Floyd died due to his heart disease not Derek Chauvin
Maryland’s former chief medical examiner testified for Derek Chauvin’s defense on Wednesday that George Floyd died due to his underlying heart disease not the police restraint.
“In my opinion, Mr. Floyd had a sudden cardiac arrhythmia, or cardiac arrhythmia, due to his atherosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease … during his restraint and subdual by the police,” said Dr. David Fowler, a forensic pathologist.
Floyd had narrowed coronary arteries, known as atherosclerosis, and an enlarged heart due to his high blood pressure, or hypertension, Fowler said. Floyd’s fentanyl and methamphetamine use and a tumor known as a paraganglioma were other significant conditions that contributed to his death, he said.
By TD
Apr 14, 2021
Just hours after Daunte Wright was mistakenly, but fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer, some Democrat lawmakers are re-raising the issue of defunding the police and calling for the end of police entirely.
During a traffic stop near Minneapolis, veteran officer Kimberly Potter fired a single fatal shot at Wright as she mistakenly confused her gun for her Taser, police officials said on Monday. The Brooklyn Center Police Department released bodycam video of the incident soon after it happened to try to ease tensions in a state on edge over the Derek Chauvin trial. He was pulled over for having an expired registration on the vehicle, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Monday. When the officer went over, an item hanging from the rearview mirror was spotted. It was after that, Gannon said, that the officers discovered that a gross misdemeanor warrant for Wright s arrest had been issued.
MINNEAPOLIS â Former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kimberly A. Potter was arrested late Wednesday morning at the offices of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the agency said in a statement.
Potter, who resigned from the police department on Tuesday, was booked into Hennepin County jail shortly after noon on a charge of probable cause second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death on Sunday of Daunte Wright, jail records show. The Washington County Attorney s Office was expected to file charges later in the day.
Potter is being represented by attorney Earl Gray, who was not immediately available for comment.
Attorney Ben Crump, who said he has been retained by Wright s family, issued a statement Wednesday with co-counsel Jeff Storms and Antonio Romanucci in response to the charges.
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