Published forensic results in the case of the death of the African-American George Floyd
African American George Floyd of Minneapolis, whose death was the reason for the large-scale protests in the US, died from asphyxiation in the end murder, about it is reported in the official conclusion of forensic medical examination.
in a press release of the medical examiner Hennepin County (Minnesota) in the cause of death is listed as "stop cardio-pulmonary activity as a result of compression and strangulation of the neck" by the police.
Deaths classified as " homicide ".
from the beginning, the doctors have not linked the cause of death of Floyd from suffocation. Then the victim's family commissioned an independent autopsy, during which it was determined that the man was strangled. Now this conclusion was confirmed by an official medical examiner.
The riots in American cities erupted after the death in Minneapolis of the African-American George Floyd during the arrest by law enforcement. In the Internet appeared the footage, which shows that the man was handcuffed, knocking him to the same one of the police officers stepped on his knee on the neck.
in the video, the detainee repeatedly says that it can not breathe, Then fades. He later died in intensive care.
Four law enforcement officers fired, one of them was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
in the US capital said a curfew.
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