No, those were contributing factors, not the cause of death.
And no, the medical reports do not back you up.
So in your opinion,” Nelson asked, “both the heart disease as well as the history of hypertension and the drugs that were in his system played a role in Mr. Floyd’s death?”
“In my opinion, yes,” Baker said.
But Baker reiterated he stood by the cause of death he wrote on Floyd’s death certificate and his finding Floyd’s death was a homicide, which to a medical examiner means his death was caused by another person and does not necessarily indicate guilt.
“Yes, I would still classify it as homicide today,” he said.
I mean yes, it's what the medical experts and reports told us happened (even the lead defense witness merely advanced alternative theories about how the restraint could have contributed to his death in ways which wouldn't make the officers culpable rather than pushing the 'overdose' angle, whilst also conceding that the officers' failure to attempt to resuscitate him after detecting no pulse was a contributory factor in the death).
But clearly nothing can compare with what your favourite partisan source tells you happened.
It's what the coroner told us happened, yes. It's also what the video evidence we saw with our own eyes said had happened. It seems very likely to be what really happened, unless you have evidence you're hiding from everyone else.
