Followers of this blog may recall that over the years I have written extensively about the death of George Floyd and the shameful legal lynching of the police officers who were convicted of killing him.

Recently Tucker Carlson joined those of us who have challenged the official narrative regarding the death of George Floyd. He correctly noted that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s report indicated a massive overdose of fentanyl in Floyd’s system as well as no sign of injury to his neck or signs that his airways had been compressed or obstructed.

While Carlson’s observations are correct and consistent with what I wrote years ago, they do not – in and of themselves – account for Floyd’s death. If he had died from a fentanyl overdose, he would have quietly become unconscious and then expired.

But it didn’t happen that way. As shown on the police body cam video, Floyd was still upright and mobile when he repeatedly shouted that he couldn’t breathe. This occurred while the police were trying to get him into a squad car. No one was holding him by the neck as he resisted the police. When he said that he wanted to be out of the car and to “go down”, they removed him and placed him on the ground beside the car. Floyd continued to say that he couldn’t breathe until he became quiet and immobile.

So what really happened?

At autopsy it was determined that Floyd had severe coronary artery disease and a history of hypertension. These findings are critical to understanding the cause of death.

Dr. David Fowler, former Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland, testified for the defense at the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin that, while being restrained by the police, Floyd died of a sudden onset cardiac arrhythmia due to his heart disease which included high blood pressure and narrowing of the arteries. He added that the presence of fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system were contributing factors.

Years ago, I spoke off the record and on deep background with a physician who had been prepared to provide expert testimony on Chauvin’s behalf regarding the significance of the fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system. As he explained it to me, the interaction of those drugs would have contributed to the sudden onset of Floyd’s fatal cardiac arrhythmia.

(For reasons unknown, defense counsel elected not to call this doctor to testify.)

In other words, although Floyd had a load of fentanyl on board, the cause of death was sudden onset cardiac arrhythmia. And contrary to the testimony of the pulmonologist who testified for the prosecution at Chauvin’s trial, it was definitely not because of any pressure applied to Floyd’s neck.

In 2020 I participated in making a documentary about Floyd’s death. The producer and director is Fleming Fuller, a noted and talented documentary filmmaker.

“The Death of George Floyd?” runs for 23 minutes and can be viewed by clicking on this link.

In the documentary, I talk about “excited delirium” as being the potential cause of death. As I inartfully tried to explain in the documentary, this is just another way of saying that Floyd died of cardiac arrhythmia.

But the real value of the documentary is how Fleming Fuller and his crew used the available video record to present in comprehensible fashion the events surrounding the death of George Floyd.

So take a look and decide for yourself what killed George Floyd.