“You can see his eyes — he’s conscious — and then you see that he isn’t,” Dr. Tobin said. “A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died,” Dr. Tobin said. Eric J. Nelson, the lawyer for Mr. Chauvin, pushed back on Dr. Tobin’s testimony during his questioning and suggested that Mr. Floyd could have died of an overdose. Mr. Nelson also sought to portray the medical care that Mr. Floyd received from paramedics as lacking, saying they had not inserted a tube down Mr. Floyd’s throat until nine minutes after they arrived. Mr. Floyd was so desperate for air at one point that he tried to lift himself off the ground by pushing his right knuckle against a police car’s tire, the doctor said.

Source: New York Times April 08, 2021 17:03 UTC