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The autopsy of George Floyd and its role in the Derek Chauvin case, with a focus on the cause of death being asphyxiation due to restraint and neck compression.
Derek Chauvin—the Minneapolis officer who restrained George Floyd on May 25, 2020—was found guilty by a Hennepin County jury on all state counts of unintentional second‑degree murder, third‑degree mur...
The independent autopsy commissioned by George Floyd’s family concluded that he died from asphyxia due to sustained pressure on his neck and back, a finding announced by the family’s forensic experts ...
testified that a combination of prone positioning, restrained arms, and ’s knee on ’s neck and back produced mechanically restricted, progressively “shallow” breathing that lowered oxygen delivery to ...
The courtroom fight over George Floyd’s prior run‑ins with police was a tightly managed, contested sideline in the 2021 Derek Chauvin trial: judges largely excluded broad uses of Floyd’s past arrests ...
Two autopsies were released after George Floyd’s death: the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s official autopsy and a separate autopsy commissioned by Floyd’s family conducted by two independent foren...