But you said...
Another lie was that Floyd suffocated from a knee to the neck. He had been suffering from a drug overdose and complained of breathing difficulties before that technique was applied.
Then you said...
The report says that asphyxiation was made more likely by the drugs in his system, along with his prior health issues.
Then you said...
...but they also mention his health conditions and drug use were contributing factors.
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But there's no evidence drugs played a role in his death. Not in either medical report or even by the article you linked. That's just a reason many made up to excuse Chauvin.
And while the experts in that article state his heart disease could have contributed to his death, we'll never know if it did. And those experts did not examine him. Whereas the pathologist who did examine Floyd concluded manner of his death was "homicide," not "natural."
And again, Chauvin was not trained to implement that technique in the manner he did. His own training guide shows the knee goes on the upper back, not the neck. And it shows the officer is supposed to lean back to reduce the body weight on the suspect. Chauvin was straight up, putting much of his body weight on Floyd. And when MRT is performed, the officer has to monitor the suspect's health and place them into the recovery position should they become unconscious. Chauvin never did any of that. Instead, he remained on Floyd for something like 2 minutes AFTER Floyd died.
Guilty as charged