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		</div><p>A post-mortem examination commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the family’s lawyers have said.</p>
<p>The post-mortem found the compression cut off blood to Mr Floyd’s brain, and weight on his back made it hard to breathe, lawyer Ben Crump said at a news conference.</p>
<p>The family’s procedure differs from the official post-mortem as described in a criminal complaint against the officer.</p>
<p>That autopsy included the effects of being restrained, along with underlying health issues and potential intoxicants in Mr Floyd’s system, but also said it found nothing “<i>to support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation</i>”.</p>
<p>Mr Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs at the time, died after the white officer ignored bystanders’ shouts to get off him and Mr Floyd’s cries that he couldn’t breathe.</p>
<p>His death, captured on citizen video, sparked days of protests in Minneapolis that have spread to cities around America.<br />
The official post-mortem last week provided no other details about intoxicants, and toxicology results can take weeks.</p>
<p>In the emergency call that drew police, the caller described the man suspected of paying with counterfeit money as “<i>awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself</i>”.</p>
<p>Mr Crump said last week that he was commissioning the family’s own post-mortem.</p>
<p>Mr Floyd’s family, like the families of other black men killed by police, wanted an independent look because they did not trust local authorities to produce an unbiased test.</p>
<p>The family’s post-mortem was conducted by Michael Baden and Allecia Wilson. Mr Baden is the former chief medical examiner of New York City, who was hired to conduct a post-mortem of Eric Garner, a black man who died in 2014 after New York police placed him in a chokehold and he pleaded that he could not breathe.</p>
<p>Mr Baden also conducted an independent post-mortem of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri. He said that procedure, requested by the teenager’s family, did not reveal signs of a struggle, casting doubt on a claim by police that a struggle between Mr Brown and the officer led to the shooting.</p>
<p>The officer who held his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter and is in custody in a state prison.</p>
<p>The other three officers on scene, like Chauvin, were fired the day after the incident but have not been charged.</p>
<p>Mr Crump on Monday called for the remaining three officers to be arrested and for the charge against Chauvin to be upgraded to first-degree murder.</p>
<p>The head of the Minneapolis police union said in a letter to members that the officers were fired without due process and lawyers are fighting for their jobs.</p>
<p>Lieutenant Bob Kroll, the union president, also criticised the city leadership, saying a lack of support is to blame for the days of sometimes violent protests.</p>
<p>Mayor Jacob Frey said: “<i>For a man who complains so frequently about a lack of community trust and support for the police department, Bob Kroll remains shockingly indifferent to his role in undermining that trust and support</i>.”</p>
<p>Mr Frey said Mr Kroll’s opposition to reform and lack of empathy for the community has undermined trust in the police.</p>
<p>State governor Tim Walz announced on Sunday that attorney general Keith Ellison would take the lead in any prosecutions in Mr Floyd’s death.</p>
<p>Local civil rights activists have said Hennepin County attorney Mike Freeman does not have the trust of the black community.</p>
<p>They have protested outside his house, and pressed him to charge the other three officers. He remains on the case.</p>
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