The medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide caused by law enforcement restraint last year told a courtroom on Friday that Floyd’s health history and intoxication contributed to the death. Floyd, 46, suffered from “very severe underlying heart disease” and was a factor in the death, as was the toxicology findings that he…

The medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide caused by law enforcement restraint last year told a courtroom on April 9 that Floyd’s health history and intoxication contributed to the death. Floyd, 46, suffered from “very severe underlying heart disease” that was a factor in the death, as was the toxicology findings that…

George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen while being restrained by police officers last year, a medical expert told the court during the trial of one of the former officers involved. “A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected to,”…

A law enforcement agent told the court during the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Wednesday that he heard George Floyd, the man who died after being in police custody, say he ate too many drugs. James Reyerson, a senior special agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, was being questioned…

The actions of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the arrest of George Floyd last year went against department policy, the city’s police chief said Monday. “I absolutely agree that violates our policy,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo told a prosecutor in Hennepin County during day five of Chauvin’s trial when asked whether the way…