Doctor: Floyd’s preexisting conditions and drug use had no impact on death
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. We're following breaking news tonight. A mass shooting in Brian, Texas, |
| 0:05.2 | Northwest of Houston, just a few miles from Texas A&M University in college station. |
| 0:09.4 | It happened at a local cabinet company. The local police chief says the shooter may have |
| 0:13.6 | been employed there. He's now in custody. Chief says at least one person has died, at least |
| 0:18.0 | five are wounded, including a state trooper who was shot pursuing the suspect. We've |
| 0:22.4 | accrued on the scene gathering information and we'll bring that to you live ahead later |
| 0:26.9 | in the hour once we know more. Today in the Derek Chauvin trial testimony from medical |
| 0:31.4 | and forensic experts casting yet more doubt on the notion that a drug overdose or some |
| 0:36.0 | other existing medical condition killed George Floyd. That in a disturbing account of the |
| 0:40.7 | man's final seconds alive. Sinister, a side nurse night reports. |
| 0:46.2 | That's the moment the life goes out of his body. I do. |
| 0:49.5 | Today, the prosecutor's expert in medical witness did not hold back. |
| 0:54.4 | Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen and this caused damage to his brain that we |
| 1:03.9 | see and it also caused a PEA arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop. |
| 1:11.8 | The world renowned expert on breathing and lungs, Dr. Martin Tobin, pointed to the officer's |
| 1:17.0 | actions, saying George Floyd died because the officers created a scenario in which Floyd's |
| 1:22.4 | lungs were put into a vice-like grip. |
| 1:25.5 | It was almost to the effect as if a surgeon had gone in and removed the lung, not quite, |
| 1:30.6 | but along those lines. |
| 1:32.9 | Dr. Tobin said four things caused Floyd to stop breathing, including Floyd's position |
| 1:38.0 | on the concrete, allowing no room for his lungs to expand. |
| 1:41.7 | You mentioned several reasons for Mr. Floyd's low oxygen. You mentioned one handcuffs and |
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