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Fowler Says He Would Classify Floyd’s Death as ‘Undetermined’
Dr. David Fowler, former Maryland chief medical examiner, testified on Wednesday that he would classify George Floyd’s death as “undetermined,” with a primary cause of cardiac arrhythmia during police restraint.
So in my opinion, Mr. Floyd had a sudden cardiac arrhythmia, or cardiac arrhythmia, due to his atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, or you can write that down multiple different ways. During his restraint and subdual by the police or restrained by the police, and then his significant contributory conditions would be, since I’ve already put the heart disease in part one, he would have the toxicology, the fentanyl and methamphetamine. There is exposure to a vehicle exhaust. So potentially carbon monoxide poisoning or at least an effect from increased carbon monoxide in his bloodstream and a paraganglioma or the other natural disease process that he has. So all of those combined to ca
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Chauvin trial: Judge denies motion to acquit; expert blames death on heart rhythm issue
By: Scripps National
and last updated 2021-04-14 16:42:21-04
UPDATE, 2:30 p.m. ET: When the court reconvened, prosecutors began cross-examining defense witness David Fowler, the retired forensic pathologist who worked as the chief medical examiner for the Maryland Department of Health.
While taking questions from prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell, Fowler admitted George Floyd should have been given immediate medical care when he suffered cardiac arrest.
âAre you suggesting that though Mr. Floyd may have been in cardiac arrest, there was a time when he may have been revived because he wasn t dead yet?â asked Blackwell.
In this week s edition of "That s not what happened!" we re going to look at a column by the Washington Post s Radley Balko, who, much like the rest of the media, appears to be not actually following the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, despite having a lot of opinions about its developments.
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Maryland s former chief medical examiner is testifying for the defense in the Minneapolis murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. His testimony comes at the same time he s being accused of helping to cover up the police s role in the 2018 in-custody death of Anton Black, a Black 19-year-old from the Eastern Shore.
Anton Black s family tells WTOP, a Hubbard radio station based in Washington, D.C., the two cases are eerily similar.
“It s surreal that you have two men on the opposite sides of the country that experienced almost the same treatment by two different police officers, said LaToya Holley, Black s sister. The medical examiner, in my opinion, was egregious in the way he finalized Anton s autopsy results. Now, he s being called to be an expert witness for another police officer.”