He seemed to be breathing fine when he was sitting in his car initially, right?Respiratory distress is dose and patient dependent, including the patient's previous abuse of the drug in question, and the time frame is not exact for cause and effect.
And we was breathing OK in the cop car but said he was claustrophobic instead.
It took a long time for the fentanyl to kick in don't you think? A lethal overdose of an opiod renders the user unconscious in about a minute or two. Floyd didn't look like he was about to pass out from drugs at any point in the video. Originally Posted by Kinkster90210
The fact that bruising was absent where the restraint was applied strongly suggests that was not the cause of death. Without bruising on the neck, and in light of the fact fentanyl was likely responsible for the respiratory arrest, how do you prove murder? Remember, you must prove murder in the eyes of the jury.
A strong case could be made he would have died on his own, due to his abuse of a dangerous drug. It happens quite often. Even monitored patients in the hospital, with dosages prescribed by the attending physician, can die with too much pain killer even when carefully administered. When using the PCA, the dosage is well below the dangerous levels and no matter how many times you push the button it only gives you medication when it is authorized to do it by the doctor responsible and monitored by a nurse.
Concerning street abuse of [redacted]from the CDC:
Reported Law Enforcement Encounters Testing Positive for Fentanyl Increase Across US
Since 2013, law enforcement encounters (drug submitted for analysis) testing positive for fentanyl reported by laboratories participating in NFLISi has sharply increased in a growing number of states. A 2015 CDC Health Alert and 2016 MMWR documented states with high or increasing numbers of fentanyl encounters also reported increases in fentanyl-involved overdose deaths. Recent investigations in Ohio and Florida provide strong evidence of an association between reported fentanyl encounters and fentanyl-involved overdose deaths due to illicitly-made fentanyl.
Most of the increases in fentanyl deaths over the last three years do not involve prescription fentanyl but are related to illicitly-made fentanyl that is being mixed with or sold as heroin—with or without the users’ knowledge[i] and increasing as counterfeit pills.[ii] In July 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a new nationwide report indicating hundreds of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills have been entering the U.S. drug market since 2014, some containing deadly amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs.[ii] The current fentanyl crisis continues to expand in size and scope across the United States.
