I agree. The prosecution also used a critical care/pulmonologist as the expert witness to testify that GF died by asphyxiation. His testimony was based on nothing but opinion and propaganda. He had no business being in that court room and the defense should have called them on it. Not only was his testimony not remotely near anything you could call science I would wager this guy never cared for a manual asphyxiation patient in his life, as that is usually the Trauma/critical care realm. He should know what a drug overdose body looks like...but he wasn't asked. A forensic pathologist is the only appropriate expert witness unless they themselves were on scene.
Imagine this: you take methamphetamine and your heart rate and contractility increase, increasing your myocardial oxygen demand. You also are feeling edgy so you start fighting with police, using every muscle in your body. Your myocardium oxygen requirement goes way up, as does the oxygen requirement of your muscles, so your heart works even harder to try to keep the blood and oxygen flowing. You need more oxygen to feed that heart that's working so hard, but the problem is you're screaming like a lunatic instead of breathing normally or compensating with heavy breathing as you would during a run or roll, and then fentanyl starts to take away your respiratory drive- you are now breathing slow and shallow, barely getting enough oxygen in. But even though your respirations are inadequate your heart still has a high need for oxygen, because the methamphetamine tells your heart and your body not to quit. Eventually demand surpasses supply and your myocardium starts to die and your heart fails. You are now dead. Is this murder? Manslaughter?
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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
You want to know what’s really disparaging...the pathologist who testified today (coroner, doctor, whatever) who did the autopsy on Floyd for the state, used video evidence to make a determination of death. I mean like really...what the fuck! An autopsy should be based only on pathology of medical evidence and cellular health, toxicology and precipitating factors found within the body.
To use and base your evidence on third party ******* video shows just how unprofessional the coroner’s office is.
Might as well say every drug overdose death is a result of “body-cam video evidence of properly applied restraint techniques used by police.”
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