Evidence Mounts — Chauvin Did Not Murder Floyd

Evidence Mounts — Chauvin Did Not Murder Floyd

• The strange evolution of the prosecution’s asphyxiation charge.

"...Prosecutors knew they had a problem. 

To make the murder charge stick in the Chauvin case, they had to secure an “asphyxia” diagnosis from a physician. 

If justice were the goal, prosecutors would have taken two critical steps to assure that the medical testimony supported the charge of murder. 

• The first was to run a controlled experiment to see if Chauvin’s actions could possibly have resulted in the death of George Floyd. 
• The second was to make the court and the defense aware of the potential compromise of its star medical witness, Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker.

Dr. John Dunn did run such an experiment, and he made a video of the same. 

...Not content to speculate, Dr. Dunn enlisted the help of two men to determine whether or not the prone restraint used by Chauvin on Floyd could have asphyxiated and killed him. 

He recruited a 230-pound man to play the role of Floyd and a 170-pound man to play Chauvin’s role. 

At the time of the incident, Floyd weighed 223 pounds, and Chauvin, with his gear, weighed about 170...Read all.