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Medical examiner who performed George Floyd's autopsy says Chauvin's knee would NOT cut off his oxygen and claims he died because having his neck compressed was 'just more than he could take,' given underlying heart disease Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker took the stand Friday in the tenth day of Derek Chauvin's murder trial  Dr. Baker, one of the state's most significant witnesses, did not echo the testimonies of other state experts  Asked if, in his opinion, the positioning of Chauvin's knee would cut off Floyd's oxygen supply, Dr. Baker said, 'In my opinion it wou...

Mr. Chauvin said the officers had to restrain Mr. Floyd because he would not stay in the back of a police car. “He was going crazy,” he said.

Yet as Mr. Chauvin, who is white, went on trial, one of the primary questions was whether this tactic would still work, especially amid shifting attitudes in America about drug use and with the country in the grips of an opioid epidemic. “Tens of thousands of Americans struggle with self-medication and opioid abuse and are treated with dignity, respect and support, not brutality,” Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, lawyers for the Floyd family, said in a joint statement on Thursday. “We fully expected the defense to put George’s character and struggles with addiction on trial because th...