(05-29-2020, 07:48 PM)JackCity Wrote: I don't think these guys know how a preliminary autopsy report works

From what I can gather,  it was a myriad of reasons that caused his death. They cant say definitively that the restraint was the cause of death nor can they rule it out. The empirical evidence suggests that a manslaughter conviction is on it's way.

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(05-29-2020, 07:56 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 07:40 PM)JaG4LyFe Wrote: What exactly?

The autopsy says that there is "no evidence of traumatic asphyxiation".
In other words, they do not believe that his jugular veins were blocked in such a way to cause tiny bruises to appear in the lining of his eyeballs.
People who do not understand medical science and the human body may take this to mean that having a knee on the back of one's neck is a safe way to go about life, and the officer really could not have meant to kill him, but that is nonsense.
Listen to this mechanical engineer.
Multiple types of fluids are present in the human body and they have multiple unique pathways through the neck. Air goes up and down the same pathway. Blood goes up some and down others. Each of these pathways are flexible and if you're compressing the whole area, some may be open while others are closed. If at least one jugular vein is open, the evidence of traumatic asphyxiation is not likely to be there. But if both carotid arteries are partially blocked, the brain will stop receiving oxygen just the same, without leaving these signs of bruising within the eyes that the medical examiner was probably looking for.

I was looking for their take since they used such a short sentence to explain absolutely nothing

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