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Erin Burnett OutFront

Medical Examiner: George Floyd’s Death was a Homicide

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Medical examiner: heart disease, drugs likely played a role in death. Also states that, “the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take”. Gaetz speaks to women’s group amid federal sex trafficking probe. House ethics committee launches investigation into Gaetz. Georgia pauses J&J vaccine at one location due to “adverse reactions”. GOP, Dem lawmakers invited to White House to talk $2T spending plan. World mourns death of Prince Phillip, he was 99 years old. “The People V. The Klan” premieres Sunday at 9pm ET. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Outfront next, compelling testimony from the medical examiner who conducted George Floyd's

0:35.3

autopsy. He called Floyd's death a homicide,

0:38.6

but also admitted Floyd's heart and drugs likely played a role in his death.

0:43.0

Plus, Matt Gates, about to give his first public speech since we learned the Justice

0:46.0

Department is looking into whether he had a sexual relationship with a minor, what the

0:50.0

congressman is saying tonight, and a governor where COVID cases are surging, pleading for more

0:55.0

vaccines. The administration is saying no. Why? Let's go out front. And good evening. I'm

1:03.0

Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, George Floyd's death was a homicide. That from one of the

1:07.4

prosecution's most anticipated and important witnesses, the medical

1:11.1

examiner who performed the autopsy on George Floyd. Dr. Andrew Baker telling the jury that Floyd

1:17.1

had severe underlying heart disease, but that it was ultimately his interaction with Chauvin

1:22.3

that caused him to rule Floyd's death a homicide. You know he had very severe underlying heart disease.

1:30.9

I don't know that we specifically got to it, counselor,

1:33.4

but Mr. Floyd also had what we call hypertensive heart disease,

1:36.3

meaning his heart weighed more than it should.

1:39.4

So he has a heart that already needs more oxygen

1:42.4

than a normal heart by virtue of its size,

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