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Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan. There has been a lot of discussion

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Speaker 1: about the autopsy and findings of George Floyd. The prosecutors. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what did they say was the cause and manner of

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Speaker 1: death with regard to George Floyd. I think that it's

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Speaker 1: very important that first off, we framed this in the

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Speaker 1: the final report. This is something that they have initially

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Speaker 1: released to the public and it's essentially a one page document.

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Speaker 1: What they did find at autopsy was that Floyd had

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Speaker 1: significant pathology going on, and what that means is that

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Speaker 1: they've identified hypertension, hypertensive changes in his body, which probably

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Speaker 1: goes to things like thickening of the mild cardium or

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Speaker 1: the muscle of the heart wall. Also, he's got significant

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Speaker 1: athroscrotic cardiovascular disease and you know, kind of an nutshell,

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Speaker 1: what that means is that he probably had elevated cholesterol

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Speaker 1: and that is significant in and of itself. We do

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Speaker 1: know that they have in fact ruled the manner of death,

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Speaker 1: and they were very open about this. They ruled the

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Speaker 1: manner of death as homicide, which, for folks that don't know,

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Speaker 1: there's only five things that the medical examiner can choose from.

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Speaker 1: Unlike lawyers, they only have five. They have homicide, suicide, accidental, natural,

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Speaker 1: and undetermined. There are not varying degrees in the medical

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Speaker 1: legal community, only that choice, and they did, in fact

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Speaker 1: rule the manner as homicide, which means death at another

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Speaker 1: person's hand. The family then hired a private medical examiner

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Speaker 1: in doctor Michael Biden. He's world renowned. What did he

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Speaker 1: determine was the causing manner at death? Well, he's he's

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Speaker 1: ruling this as well. He's saying that this is in

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Speaker 1: fact a homicide. But what he talks about in his release,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what the Hennipod County Medical Examiner UH

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Speaker 1: specifics and they are significant. And what makes them so

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Speaker 1: significant is that he identifies trauma, he identifies hemorrhage, and

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Speaker 1: if if our listeners will just understand that we have

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Speaker 1: what are called we have what are called cervical vertebral bodies, okay,

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Speaker 1: there there They range from starting at C one, which

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Speaker 1: literally supports the skull. He's talking about C three, C four,

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Speaker 1: that our brain, our brains require a tremendous amount of

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Speaker 1: or the crowded arteries. He has found alongside the right

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Speaker 1: at some point time along this continuum, when all of

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Speaker 1: that vessel. What about the toxicology report? Oh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: this again is central to this, and we have to

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Speaker 1: go back to the Hinnepon medical examiner's findings, which was

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Speaker 1: kind of striking because they release this information much more

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Speaker 1: quickly than we commonly see in many of these cases.

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Speaker 1: And what they found was that he had fentnel on board,

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Speaker 1: which of course we know is a depressant, which literally

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Speaker 1: our judgment. Many times people that are own fentyl will

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Speaker 1: One other interesting part here was that they stated that

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Speaker 1: there was evidence of recent methamphetamine use. Now I don't

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Speaker 1: know how they're drawing that conclusion. I have no idea,

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Speaker 1: because let's go back to this and think about this.

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Speaker 1: We have two findings in forensic toxicology. What that means

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Speaker 1: not release that information, and what that's going to tell

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Speaker 1: us is how much of these substances did he actually

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Speaker 1: they are claiming that that knee and the neck did contribute. Correct. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: for instance, in mister Floyd's case, if mister Floyd had

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Speaker 1: It goes to the peripheral causal issues revolving around this.

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Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, it's very simple.

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Speaker 1: the toxicology reports, including history of methamphetamine news Fenton al

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Speaker 1: man's death. From a prosecutorial standpoint, this is the reality.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Michael Boden's autopsy is not going to be used

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Speaker 1: what will be used is what the Hnnepen County Medical

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Speaker 1: And all of these things are factoring in now Boden,

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Speaker 1: death is solely related to the compression of the neck. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the Hinnepot County Medical Examiners Office. Is there a substantial

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Speaker 1: it's ruled as a homicide. And then very plainly on

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Speaker 1: traumatically related event. We've got hemorrhage that's running alongside the

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Speaker 1: was treated in a manner which led to his death. Now,

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