WHOA.....I'm still watching cross of Medical Examiner, Dr. Baker. HE JUST SAID....
"FENTANYL CAN CERTAINLY BE A CAUSE OF PULMONARY EDIMA. AS I INDICATED EARLIER IN PREVIOUS QUESTIONS, IT'S CONFOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT MR. FLOYD HAD QUITE A BIT OF CPR AND SO I FIND THE PULMONARY EDEMA MUCH LESS SPECIFIC GIVEN THAT HE SURVIVED AND MADE IT TO THE HOSPITALFOR A PERIOD OF TIME!!!!"
WTH???
Are we sure this isnt just one of those "only a doctor can call time of death", and even though he was dead as a doornail to anyone with a brain cell, it simply takes a doctor to make the OFFICIAL call of death?
A dude missing his torso from a blast can come into a hospital and is technically alive, until a doc looks at him and says "time of death, right now" even though he passed away 2 hours ago... ??
Taking blood antemortem would not have happened if he was simply waiting on an official time of death declaration.
Curious about that. It seems he was only being kept alive by artificial means (CPR)....would the blood drawn during that time still be considered 'while he was alive'....then when CPR stopped he was 'officially' pronounced dead? AND, it's weird to me that no one was giving him breaths during CPR. I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but what went on in the ambulance seemed 'off' to me.