Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo takes stand
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, who said George Floyd’s death was a “murder,” has taken the stand.
During his opening statement last week, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said Arradondo would testify Chauvin’s “conduct was not consistent” with the police department’s training and policies.
“He will not mince any words,” Blackwell told the jury. “He is very clear. He’d be very decisive that this was excessive force.”
Arradondo, the city’s first Black police chief, fired Chauvin and the three other officers involved in Floyd’s arrest on May 26 — a day after Floyd’s death. In June, Arradondo said “Chauvin knew what he was doing.”
“Mr. George Floyd’s tragic death was not due to a lack of training — the training was there,” Arradondo said in June. “This was murder — it wasn’t a lack of training. This is why I took swift action regarding the involved officers’ employment with MPD.”
Chauvin is charged with second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Doctor who pronounced Floyd dead says he believed asphyxia was ‘likely’ cause of cardiac arrest
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The physician who pronounced George Floyd dead told prosecutors that he believed oxygen deficiency, or “asphyxia,” was “more likely” the cause of Floyd’s cardiac arrest than other possibilities based on what he knew at the time.
Dr. Bradford Langenfeld testified Floyd was in his care in the emergency department for approximately 30 minutes, after which the doctor pronounced him dead. Langenfeld said as he worked on Floyd he considered other possibilities for the reason behind Floyd’s cardiac arrest.
He said based on the information he had at the time, he felt oxygen deficiency “was more likely than the other possibilities.”
Floyd had “absolutely no cardiac activity” and had been in cardiac arrest for 60 minutes when Langenfeld determined they would not be able to resuscitate him and pronounced him dead.
The medical examiner in the case has listed Floyd’s cause of death as cardiopulmonary arrest “complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression” and that the manner of death was ruled a homicide.
ER doctor who treated George Floyd: ‘Any amount of time that a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate CPR markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome’
Dr. Bradford Wankhede Langenfeld, the emergency room doctor at the Hennepin County Medical Center who pronounced George Floyd dead, testified Monday that Floyd was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at the hospital.
“It’s well known that any amount of time that a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate CPR markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome,” Langelfeld told prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, adding that there is approximately a 10 to 15 percent decrease in survival for every minute that CPR is not administered.
Langenfeld also testified that he got a text message identifying the incoming patient as 30 years old. Floyd was 46. Paramedics told Langenfeld they tried to resuscitate Floyd for approximately 30 minutes before they arrived at the hospital, he said.
Doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead takes stand
Day six of witness testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial began Monday with the prosecution calling to the stand the physician who pronounced George Floyd dead.
Dr. Bradford Langenfeld provided the majority of direct patient care to Floyd as medical personnel worked to resuscitate him after he was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center on May 25, 2020.
Here’s what was revealed in the first week of the Derek Chauvin trial
The first week of the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in George Floyd’s death concluded Friday with the longest-serving member of the police department testifying that it was “totally unnecessary” for Derek Chauvin to kneel on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as he lay handcuffed on his stomach.
Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender of Hennepin County, where Chauvin is being tried on charges of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, said “the prosecution had an exceptional week” and that the defense’s goal “should have been to avoid any self-inflicted damage” — a challenge she said the defense did not meet.
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