Medical examiner: No pressure on Floyd autopsy report

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER
Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Defense attorneys at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officer charged with violating George Floyd’s rights questioned the chief medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide. Dr. Andrew Baker testified Tuesday that he told prosecutors after Floyd’s autopsy that there was no physical evidence that he died from insufficient oxygen. But Baker acknowledged that he included “neck compression” in his final report after speaking to a former Washington, D.C., medical examiner. Prosecutors say Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao deprived Floyd of his rights when they failed to give him medical aid as Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck. Kueng and Thao are also accused of failing to intervene.