https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...th-2021-04-09/

Pathologist: Floyd would not have died without police restraint

Dr. Lindsey Thomas testified Floyd would not have died on May 25, 2020 if it weren't for the police restraint.

"There's no evidence to suggest he would have died that night, except for the interactions with law enforcement," Thomas said.

Thomas said she believes a contributing factor to his cause of death was physiological stress, giving an example of the rush of adrenaline and increased heart rate someone experiences when they narrowly avoid a car crash. But rather than momentary stress, in Floyd's case, "this goes on for minute after minute after minute, for nine minutes, where you are terrified, and you can't... there's no recovery."

Thomas said physiological stress was not a direct cause of Floyd's death.

She agreed with a county medical examiner who found Floyd's manner of death to be a homicide. The Hennepin County medical examiner's office has said that "is not a legal determination of culpability or intent."