MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge has authorized killer-cop Derek Chauvin’s request to examine tissue and fluid samples from George Floyd. Chauvin is in prison for Floyd’s death in a high-profile Minneapolis trial for police violence. Chauvin wants to pursue a theory that Floyd didn’t die from being choked but from a rare heart condition called takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The theory has been advanced by forensic pathologist William Schaetzel in Topeka, Kansas. Said Judge Rasmussen: “Given the significant nature of the criminal case that Mr. Chauvin was convicted of, and given that the discovery that Mr. Chauvin seeks could support Dr. Schaetzel’s opinion of how Mr. Floyd died, the Court finds that there is good cause to allow Mr. Chauvin to take the discovery that he seeks.”
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