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It also prompted judge cahill to find there were several aggravating factors in the case, including the slow death of george floyd occurring over approximately six minutes of his positional asphyxia was particularly ly cruel, during h the defendant objectively remained indifferent to floyds pleas. but may 25th, floyds pleas were heard loud and clear by eyewitnesses trying to save him. >> i did call the police on the police. in a >> and why did you do that? >> because i believe i witnessed a murd...

Mario Gonzalezs death draws attention to police putting suspects face down, positional asphyxia A Los Angeles-area lawmaker who is a former police officer is trying to outlaw techniques that create a substantial risk of whats known as "positional asphyxia" Share Updated: 5:06 PM PDT May 3, 2021 By Don Thompson Mario Gonzalezs death draws attention to police putting suspects face down, positional asphyxia A Los Angeles-area lawmaker who is a former police officer is trying to outl...

Manslaughter after kling a hol rker at a five-star caribbean resort breaking his silence. >> its been a living nightmare. >> reporter: scott hapgood was vacationing with his wife and three kids in anguilla in april when he says kenny mitchel came to the door in uniform, claiming he needed to fix a sink. but hapgood says mitchel pulled a knife on him and demanded money, claiming mitchel then stabbed and bit him during a struggle. hapgoods daughters ran for help. officials say mitchel died of posi...

Weve seen quite clearly that there was a stranglehold and a choke being applied. and it really is insulting to everyones intelligence and its an insult to professional policing to come up with these excuses and rationalizations for what we all saw and what is obvious and known and established by scientific fact. >> what was the cause of death, dr. kobilinsky? >> i believe -- i havent seen the autopsy report. inn fortunately, it hasnt been released yet. but i do believe the medical examiner talke...

Difference between a criminal action in which he is presumed a criminal defendant and proven beyond a reasonable doubt versus police practices. first off it wasnt a chokehold, understand we all know from our training the fact he was able to speak means his wind wasnt cut off. if you look at the video, you will notice when he first said he couldnt breathe, they were not around him. i think the video speaks for itself in terms this was a takedown procedure and not a chokehold. jon: he also had ast...

A body on the ground, officers on the back which they are, that creates the phenomenon called positional asphyxia, stop the ability to brief waiting to his brain to cardiac arrest. the d.a. in this case in u.s. attorney justice have to and i the other officers as well. these officers are trained, they know what i suspect is on his neck, he cannot put pressure on his back. nobody is talking about that. jon: nobody is also talked with the fact this is a guy told with his arms arms behind his back ...

Essentially, it says, it doesnt say we cant use newspaper and thats what the state says. its not best practices, but its not a violation. again from the newspaper, no action from the state. >> so at the end of the investigation, in addition to his family not knowing how he died or why he was -- why he died, they have just got to accept the fact that somebody took out his organs and did away with them, even though they maybe had some relevance to the cause of death, and theyre not going to get an...

The cause of death and theyre not going to get anymore answers on that? >> reporter: we spoke with several former members of the fbi and asked is it possible there could be a third autopsy? youve got the competing ones from the state and the independent pathologist would the fbi want their own. it was possible. but now without the lungs that would have actually shown some evidence of positional asphyxia or the tissue from the jaw evidence of blunt force trauma to the neck its no point of exhumin...

Impeding that. >> thats all everyone is saying. lawrence, what would you like to know? given your expertise, what are the questions that are screaming out at you to be answered? >> whats screaming out is why did they miss that very important finding of the blunt trauma to the right side of the mand ibl and the carotid body? if you dont have any trauma to the body, then maybe you could say positional asphyxia. but once you know theres been blunt trauma, thats the most likely cause of death. who k...

>> the only question we want to know is why are they covering up for who killed their son. >> reporter: it made the johnsons suspicious, including why these shoes found yards from kendricks body were not collected as evidence and how this bloodstain ended up on the whole wal and why they never found whose blood it was and the states autopsy. the official cause of death was positional asphyxia, kendrick was suffocated by his body weight but a second autopsy paid for by the johnsons shows he died ...