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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

BONUS: George Floyd medical examiners' reports revealed. What do we learn?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Two autopsy reports relating to the death of George Floyd have been released. Both reports, one by the county medical examiner and the other by independent pathologists hired by Floyd's family, rule he died by homicide. The key details, however, on how and why he died differ. Hear death scene investigator and Professor of Forensics at Jacksonville State University Joseph Scott Morgan's analysis with Crime Online's Dave Mack.

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0:30.0

Joseph Scott Morgan, there has been a lot of discussion about the autopsy and findings

0:37.0

of George Floyd, the prosecutors. Okay. What did they say was the cause and manner of death

0:43.7

with regard to George Floyd? I think that it's very important that first off, we frame this in

0:48.9

the sense that this is a preliminary Friday. This is not the final report. This is something that

0:55.2

they have initially released to the public. And it's essentially a one-page document.

1:00.8

What they did find at autopsy was that Floyd had significant pathology going on. And what that

1:09.6

means is that they've identified hypertension, hypertensive changes in his body, which probably

1:16.9

goes to things like thickening of the myocardium or the muscle of the heart wall. Also, he

1:24.8

got significant atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. And, you know, kind of in a nutshell,

1:30.4

what that means is that he probably had elevated cholesterol, which led to these little blockages

1:37.0

in the coronary vessels. And that is significant in and of itself. We do know that they have, in fact,

1:46.9

ruled the manner of death. And they were very open about this. They ruled the manner of death

1:52.3

as homicide, which for folks that don't know, there's only five things that the medical

1:59.1

examiner can choose from. Unlike lawyers, they only have five. They have homicide, suicide,

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