Fentanyl and George Floyd
The fact that it’s highly likely that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose is old news. A lot of us put two and two together quite some time ago – in particular, the levels of fentanyl and other drugs in Floyd’s system, as well as the police videocam transcript and video – and have concluded the most likely cause of death was not the actions of the Minneapolis police.
Now, nearly three months after Floyd’s death, we get this news as part of the court filings connected with the defense of one of the police officers charged:
New exhibits filed in the George Floyd case against four former Minneapolis police officers suggest that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner found a “fatal level” of fentanyl in Floyd’s system…
Upon reviewing the blood test, it was incidentally noted in a Microsoft Teams meeting that this level of fentanyl can cause pulmonary edema as Floyd’s lungs were reportedly two-to-three times their normal weight during autopsy.
“[Baker, the county head medical examiner] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death,” the June memo read.
New exhibits filed in the case against the four former Minneapolis Police Officers accused of murdering George Floyd suggest the Hennepin County Medical Examiner thought George Floyd’s fentanyl levels were at a potentially “fatal level”, but his and other medical examiner’s findings showed he died of a combination of factors.
Six pieces of evidence were filed in the case Tuesday one day after former officer Tou Thao’s attorneys requested the release of the full autopsy reports from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, the Armed Forces Medical Examiner and the private medical examiners hired by George Floyd’s family.
The Armed Forces Medical Examiner filed a memorandum agreeing with the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s final conclusion that Floyd’s death was a homicide, saying, “His death was caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine and fentanyl intoxication.”
As a friend of mine used to say, clear as mud. Meaning: that’s not coming to a conclusion, that’s just listing every single possible factor. “In the setting of…” might mean the precipitation of a heart attack from fear. It doesn’t seem to mean asphyxiation. And if the fentanyl dose was a fatal one, wouldn’t that be the most likely cause?
It’s the same circles we’ve been running around in since the beginning. And the press has been singularly unhelpful in getting at the truth, as usual. But that’s by design. They aim to inflame rather than to soothe or to seek the truth.
And the media is happy to perpetuate the lies:
Knee on the neck
Hand up don’t shoot
“fine people on both sides”
“genocide of black people”
Lather rinse repeat…
So, thanks to the deliberate actions of the MSM and their political allies on the Left/Democrats, an alternate reality and alternate world-view–one deliberately created and, then, cited to justify all sorts of violence and Insurrection–is created and perpetuated; a Lie that will linger in the air like a bad smell, one that you can never really completely get rid of.
A natural, perhaps self-induced, homicide.
Just adding”In the setting of” Covid-19 would combine current narratives. No test nessessary.
Here is what happened the way i see it…
Floyd took as much fentanyl as he could to maximize his high
IF he was sitting around being lazy as most people who do that much of that kind of drug do, he would not have required more oxygen from his lungs. There would be a good chance he would have survived if he was just laying on the couch floating in and out.
However, this was not what he was doing. He had actively committed a crime for which he probably was not clear headed enough to get away with as he probably had before. He was walking around.
When the police showed up, and he was caught, his natural stress response kicked in, his heart rate went up, his need for oxygen went up, and that exceeded his bodies capacity to deliver it. This is akin to a person who gets dies from vigorous exercise they are not used to doing… they push their requirements over a line, the heart doesn’t get enough, and a bad thing happens.
This is what i think ultimately happened to Floyd…
He took his max, and if he was lazy on the couch would have not taxed his system… but he wasn’t, and did something, that then put him in a stressful situation, his body ramped up, required more oxygen than he could provide, and that was that…
Question–so what’s going to happen when these cops get acquitted?
National rioting round 2?
Bill Serra:
Yes.
Bill Serra:
it is the responsibility of the citizens to prevent the burning down of their cities by voting all democrats out of office. Democrats don’t deserve to get 1 vote.
Chauvin is innocent. Rolfe is innocent.
Further information on the Kenosha incident required.
In the days immediately after Floyd’s death, my first thought was “Chauvin should not have had his knee on his neck — especially for 8 minutes.”
After a few days of seeing the “knee on neck” photos, I began to think “Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulder, not his neck, so death was most likely the result of over exertion or fear.”
Now we learn of the heavy dose (perhaps “overdose” is the right term) of fentanyl in his system, and I’ve revised my opinion. It now looks likely over exertion combined with fear and fentanyl might have been what caused the death.
In any case, the knee on the neck explanation appears to have dropped off the screen entirely.
But the bottom line is the worst offender in this whole tragic scene was not Chauvin, nor even the police department as a whole.
It was the American press, who merged an anti-authority, anti white, anti Trump prejudice into some of the most biased and irresponsible reporting possible. America and Americans are very badly served by the Fourth Estate.
artfldgr- that’s exactly the way I see it as well.
Shades of the first half of the Ronald Opus urban legend (man jumps off building intending to commit suicide, but is shot on the way down, and then the story gets weirder..)