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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe ME said no sign of being asphyxiated. My question is if someone has their knee and on
someones neck, wouldnt that cut off blood flow through the caratoid, and thus deprive oxygen to the brain?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,106 posts)and where on the neck it was being exerted. They will call expert witnesses to answer questions about exactly what physical processes caused Floyd's heart attack.
Sienna86
(2,150 posts)Exactly.
The Magistrate
(95,275 posts)This is a specific condition in which there is such extreme compression of the chest blood flows backwards, so the brain is flooded with de-oxygenated blood.
RandySF
(60,170 posts)leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)Wouldn't the combination of compression on both chest and neck make it difficult to breathe?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)unblock
(52,570 posts)Preventing air from getting into the lungs
Preventing blood from getting to the head
Stimulating the vagus nerve causing blood pressure or other cardiac problems
I'm sure there are others as well.
Sounds like the vagus nerve might be the culprit in this case, though I hope there's a more complete examination.
2naSalit
(87,090 posts)and possibly severing it or damaging. C2 is the vertebrae associated with respiratory function so any and all nerve systems are rooted in the cervical spine so any serious pressure is bound to do some kind of serious damage.
mn9driver
(4,435 posts)Chauvin is being represented by the same guy that got Philando Castiles killer cop acquitted.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)complain that they can't breathe, the cause of death couldn't possibly be asphyxiation, could it?
Fuck that noise.
when that person becomes unresponsive, and you, as a First Responder, do NOTHING?
Koz
spinbaby
(15,096 posts)They seemed to be saying he wasnt healthy enough to survive being strangled like it was his fault.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)But in the end 'it's just clearly the black guy's fault'
2naSalit
(87,090 posts)marlakay
(11,553 posts)Sounds like he works for the police.
2naSalit
(87,090 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)strangulation and asphyxiation, and didn't find a broken hyoid bone or other telltales signs. But it doesn't rule out that he died due to the actions of the officer. The force was on the back of his neck, not the front, which I believe explains the lack of those findings.
The complaint doesn't say he didn't die of suffocation.
mainer
(12,039 posts)Yes, maybe he had preexisting medical issues, and yes, you can determine if there was a heart attack (examination of cardiac muscle for infarction) but to rule out asphyxiation seems a bridge too far.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)Those 4 ex-cops are murderers.
Mariana
(14,863 posts)"Traumatic asphyxia" does not mean the same thing as "asphyxia".
still_one
(92,595 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,112 posts)gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)That preliminary report changes nothing.
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