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I assume some of you have already seen or read about Martin Tobin’s testimony, but if you haven’t it’s absolutely devastating:

Even after George Floyd took his final breath and went motionless under Derek Chauvin’s knee, the since-fired Minneapolis police officer kept the pressure on for another three minutes and 27 seconds, a Chicago-based lung and critical care expert testified Thursday.

Dr. Martin Tobin, a Chicago physician who has written textbooks and specialized in respiratory and critical care medicine for decades, showed through graphics and video how Floyd pressed the fingers of his cuffed right hand to the ground and his knuckles against a police squad-car tire as he fought in vain to open up his side to pull air into his right lung.

“Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen,” Tobin said. “This caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused a [pulseless electrical activity] arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop.”

Floyd’s cause of death remains at the heart of the case. Prosecutors used two out-of-state experts Thursday to bolster their argument that Floyd died because he couldn’t breathe while handcuffed on his stomach, pinned under the body weight of Chauvin, who was aided by former officers J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane.

In his cross-examinations, defense attorney Eric Nelson again worked to show that Floyd could have died from a heart attack or overdose caused by illicit drug use and underlying health problems, including arterial blockages. When prosecutor Jerry Blackwell asked Tobin if Floyd’s pre-existing health conditions had anything to do with his death, the doctor replied, “none whatsoever.”

Not that the defense theory makes any sense, but it’s good to see it put to bed so forcefully.

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