Nope. Show me in the autopsy that Floyd's death was a result of police intervention. Please! Prove me wrong! Have you even looked at the Toxicology report in paragraph VI?
The first line… “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”
I looked at the toxicology report… In fact, I used to read autopsy reports daily for work and thus am super, super familiar with them. In fact, I trained people on how to read autopsy reports in not one but two jobs; one at a police/911 dispatch center, the other for an aeromedical transport through a level one trauma center. Ready to get schooled?
His Fentanyl is listed as 11, which to people who don’t read autopsies regularly had them all grasping at their pearls, but then you read the rest of the report. It also states in the reference section: “it is reported that patients lost consciousness at mean plasma levels of fentanyl of 34 ng/mL when infused with 75 mcg/Kg over a 15 min period; peak plasma levels averaged 50 ng/mL” and that in cases of poisoning or non regular users, they may have a reaction at as low as 3 ng/mL. So, for this test, if you have somebody who died with only 3ng/mL, acute poisoning is the suspected cause (either it’s tainted, mis-processed, or they’re basically allergic to it) depending on their norfent score. In all others, acute overdose symptoms start at 34 ng/mL and tend to reach near-universal mortality at 50 ng/mL.
He was at an 11. Well under acute overdose and well over tainted/poisoning, especially given his norf score of 5.6. If he had a 5.6 and a 3, it would be a poisoning/OD. Otherwise the OD symptoms on this test begin at 34 and max out to near 100% death at north of 50.
In short, he had fentanyl in his system, enough for a mild buzz and moderate impairment, not enough for death. He either took a small dose recently (unlikely given it was in his urine as well) or he’d taken a larger dose… I’m doing rough math here, but it seems… Maybe 8 to 14ish hours prior…? The math portion to figure toxicity decline was never my thing… I had an Excel for that. His Methamphetamine score was a 19 which is a complete and total nothingburger. Not even enough to contribute to a buzz, looking at the test thresholds that say 200-600 is where impairment begins and toxicity is above 600. It just means he used at some point… And not even particularly recently.
Hence what three doctors testified in court, that they weren’t even secondary or third contributing factors. Primary was choking, secondary was heart/cardiac issues related to a pre-existing condition (one he may not have known he had? It’s unclear), third is anemia (also seems he didn’t know he had it). Other factors included COVID and drugs that impaired decision making and above legal levels, but well short of toxicity.