- The hypothesis of a death of George Floyd by "overdose" is relayed on social networks, because of the presence of fentanyl in the blood of the American.
- Expertises concluded in a death by "homicide".
No new document has come to prove that George Floyd "died of an overdose". Yet this is what a French-speaking site affirms in a tweet relayed nearly 900 times. This is also the thesis advanced in part by the defense of Thomas Lane, one of the four police officers dismissed after the death of the African-American, on May 25 in Minneapolis, a thesis in reverse of the autopsies, which present this death as a "Homicide".
Derek Chauvin, one of the four policemen, was filmed leaning on George Floyd, who is on the ground. Several times, George Floyd launches: "I can not breathe". His death sparked a wave of protests in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
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If fentanyl, an analgesic drug diverted from its use, was indeed found in the blood of George Floyd, the doctor who carried out the autopsy does not confirm that this dose is the cause of George Floyd's death. In a new document released this week and spotted by the AP agency, the Hennepin County chief medical examiner explains that a "fairly high" level of the drug was found in George Floyd's blood. "This is a lethal fentanyl level under normal circumstances." However, he does not conclude that it was this dose that caused the death of the father of the family.
"I'm not saying that's what killed him," the doctor wrote in another note spotted by the news agency, about the presence of the drug in his blood.
Fentanyl has different effects in different people
In the New York Times , Dr. Carl Hart, a neuroscientist, recalls that the same dose of this drug has different effects in different individuals.
On June 1, the medical examiner's office described George Floyd's cause of death as "cardio-respiratory arrest" linked to his immobilization and "compression of the neck". The Armed Forces Medical Examiner's Office also used the term "homicide" to describe the death.
Another expert report, the results of which had been presented by the lawyer for the family of George Floyd, concluded that George Floyd was "asphyxiated" by "compression of the neck and back".
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