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[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] George Floyd, whose fatal encounter with Minneapolis police stirred a global outcry over racial bias by U.S. law enforcement, tested positive for the coronavirus, his autopsy showed, but the infection was not listed as a reason in his death.
The official cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest while Floyd was being restrained by police taking him into custody on May 25, according to the full 20-page report made public on Wednesday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.The coroner ruled the way of death to be a homicide.
Four police officers since fired from their jobs for their role in the incident, which was captured on a bystander’s cellphone video, are being held on criminal charges, one of them accused of murder. Demonstrators have also taken to the streets overseas, from Germany to New Zealand.
The autopsy, in listing cardiopulmonary arrest as the cause of Floyd’s death, also cited “complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”
The report listed several other factors as “significant conditions” contributing to Floyd’s death, including heart disease, high blood pressure and intoxication from the powerful opioid fentanyl, as well as recent methamphetamine use.
