CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST COMPLICATING LAW ENFORCEMENT SUBDUAL, RESTRAINT, AND NECK COMPRESSION
The word "complicating" seems misplaced here. It's written like they were subduing him and that all got fucked up by him dying, and not he died because they were subduing him. Probably standard usage in these cases but I've never come across that before to my recollection. It's also given as "cardiopulmonary," and I take that to mean they couldn't tell in the autopsy if he ran out of oxygen because his heart stopped or vice versa.
Not super old, but definitely at the point where long-term health problems start staring you down. If someone wants to scrape through the morbidity and mortality reports for heart disease and opioid addiction for black men, godspeed.
I. Blunt force injuries
A. Cutaneous blunt force injuries of the forehead, face, and upper lip
B. Mucosal injuries of the lips
C. Cutaneous blunt force injuries of the shoulders, hands, elbows, and legs
D. Patterned contusions (in some areas abraded) of the wrists, consistent with restraints (handcuffs)
According to the defense, some of the injuries to the face and mouth happened in the car when Floyd was struggling. Some of this probably happened against the pavement.
III. No life-threatening injuries identified
A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae
B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures
C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries
D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries
E. Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks negative for occult trauma
Huge amount of room for interpretation here.
There's a big hard ligament that protects the back of your neck and it was smashed into hard enough to fuck up the front of his throat but not so hard that it left any evidence on either side of the neck?
The finding of sickled-appearing cells in many of the autopsy tissue sections prompted the Hemoglobin S quantitation
reported above. This quantitative result is indicative of sickle cell trait. Red blood cells in individuals with sickle cell trait
are known to sickle as a postmortem artifact. The decedent’s antemortem peripheral blood smear (made from a complete blood count collected 5/25/20 at 9:00 p.m.) was reviewed by an expert HHC hematopathologist at the Medical Examiner’s request. This review found no evidence of antemortem sickling.
When they took a blood sample at 9 PM, his cells were okay, but by the next morning, they were all fucked up. I would like to know much more about this. Like when the pulmonologist took the stand today, he said there was literally no oxygen left, and based on my limited knowledge of chemistry, that doesn't sound right. Maybe it wasn't available for the cells to make use of, but that's different than none.
The decedent was known to be positive for 2019-nCoV RNA on 4/3/2020.
That wasn't the hospitalization, was it? Speaking of things I would like to know much more about.
The irides are brown, and the pupils are round and equal in diameter. The conjunctivae are somewhat injected, but there are no bulbar or palpebral conjunctival petechiae. There are no facial, periorbital, or oral mucosal petechiae. The external auditory canals are free of blood.
Red eyes, nothing indicating head trauma or strangulation (as I understand it).
The external genitalia are those of a normal adult male. The testes are descended and free of masses. Pubic hair is present in a normal distribution. The back, buttocks, and anus are unremarkable.
I have a friend who reads a lot of autopsies for work and he maintains that the saddest words in the English language are "penis unremarkable."
There's a shitton of stuff about small scars. One of the things he said when confronted by police in both 2019 and 2020 is that he'd been shot before, but I don't see anything that lines up with that.
His toenails were gross.
EVIDENCE OF INJURY:
Head and Neck
4 cm maximum dimension abraded red-black-purple contusion, lateral corner of left brow
Pinpoint red abrasion, just left of the midline of the forehead
6.5 cm maximum dimension red-black abrasion, left cheek
0.6 cm maximum dimension red abrasion, just inferior to left corner of mouth
0.8 cm maximum dimension curvilinear red avulsion, just superior to right side of upper lip
Eight pinpoint to 0.2 cm maximum dimension red abrasions, right side of nose
Faint blue contusions on the body of the nose (3.5 cm), right naris (1.5 cm), and left naris (1.0 cm)
1.5 cm maximum dimension aggregate of pink-purple mucosal abrasions and lacerations, upper lip
2 cm maximum dimension aggregate of pink-orange mucosal abrasions and lacerations, lower lip
Diagnosis: Acute FAFO complicating fighting with the cops.
Layer by layer dissection of the anterior strap muscles of the neck discloses no areas of contusion or hemorrhage within the musculature. The thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone are intact. The larynx is lined by intact mucosa. The thyroid is symmetric and red-brown, without cystic or nodular change. The tongue is free of bite marks, hemorrhage, or other injuries. The cervical spinal column is palpably stable and free of hemorrhage.
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM: The right and left lungs weigh 1085 and 1015 g, respectively. The external surfaces are pink only on the most anterior aspects, and deep red-purple in all other areas. The pulmonary parenchyma is diffusely congested and edematous.
No mass lesions or areas of consolidation are present. The pulmonary vascular tree is free of thromboemboli. The
tracheobronchial tree is free of blood, edema fluid, or foreign material.
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM: The 540 g heart (upper limit of normal for body length is 510 g; upper limit of normal for body weight is 521 g)1 is contained in an intact pericardial sac. The epicardial surface is smooth, with modest fat investment. The
coronary arteries are present in a normal distribution, with a right dominant pattern. Cross sections of the vessels show
multifocal atherosclerosis, with 75% proximal and 75% mid narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery; 75%
proximal narrowing of the 1st diagonal branch of the left anterior descending coronary artery; 25% proximal narrowing of
the circumflex coronary artery; and 90% proximal narrowing of the right coronary artery. The myocardium is homogeneous, redbrown, and firm. The valve leaflets are thin and mobile. The walls of the left and right ventricles are 1.2 and 0.4 cm thick, respectively. The endocardium is smooth and glistening. Both ventricular cavities are mildly dilated. The minimally atherosclerotic aorta gives rise to three intact and patent arch vessels. The renal and mesenteric vessels are unremarkable.
I don't have any thoughts about this but I thought it was all crucial to consider.
The stomach contains approximately 450 mL of dark brown fluid with innumerable soft fragments of gray-white food particulate matter resembling bread. The gastric wall is intact. The duodenum, loops of small bowel, and colon are unremarkable.
No mention of pills or pill fragments, though I suppose they would have dissolved.
The bladder contains approximately 80 mL of yellow urine.
I'm interested in the idea that it wasn't urine on the pavement. Is there no way to demonstrate this?
An incision from the back of the head to the lower back, extending onto both buttocks, is dissected subcutaneously to the
lateral aspects of the neck, the shoulders, and flanks. No areas of subcutaneous hemorrhage, soft tissue contusion, or
other occult injury are found in the posterior neck, right and left lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, or buttocks.
Again, the cops were grinding him into the ground so hard that it killed him while leaving no marks.
Cross sections of left ventricular, right ventricular, and interventricular septal myocardium are examined and show the expected microscopic architecture, with readily visible boxcar nuclear changes in the septal and left ventricular sections.
I don't know what this means.
The usual peak concentrations in serum for 1.75% or 3.55% THC marijuana cigarettes are 10 - 101 ng/mL attained 32 to 240 minutes after beginning smoking, with a slow decline thereafter.
This is some ditch weed they're testing.