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RT @washingtonpost: Here are 15 of the week’s best photos https://t.co/0uDl8EKoNm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DanEggenWPost: In George Floyd’s old neighborhood, Biden’s war on poverty faces a crucial test NEW from @ToluseO: https://t.co/i150Md… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: George Floyd died of low level of oxygen, medical expert testifies; Derek Chauvin kept knee on his neck "majority of th… — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin is asked about the lack of bruising on Floyd’s neck, per the autopsy. He said it makes no difference. “Whenever I go to church, I sit on a bench,” he said. “I don't get bruising of my buttocks when I leave" — PolitiTweet.org

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The prosecution plays a clip of the bystander video of Floyd’s restraint. “One second he’s alive, and one second, he’s no longer,” Tobin testifies. "That's the moment the life goes out of his body" — PolitiTweet.org

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He also testifies that carbon dioxide rate found in Floyd at the emergency room are consistent with someone not breathing for nearly 10 minutes. Chauvin’s defense has argued those high c02 levels could have been caused by fentanyl — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin says he was measuring Floyd’s breathing to determine whether fentanyl was slowing his breathing. He says Floyd’s respiratory rate — 22 — was normal until he lost consciousness. Fentanyl usually drops down a respiratory rate to 10 in patients — PolitiTweet.org

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Prosecutors are now playing body camera video as Tobin counts the breaths Floyd is taking. He counted 7 or 8 breaths in about 17 seconds as the jury sees an image of Floyd’s back — PolitiTweet.org

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Prosecutors play for the jury a clip of Thomas Lane’s body camera video where you see Floyd’s leg shoot up backwards stiffly and Lane force it down. Tobin says you see this when someone is having a seizure because of a fatally low level of oxygen in the brain — PolitiTweet.org

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How long can the brain go without oxygen? Tobin: "If you stop the flow of oxygen to the brain, you lose consciousness in eight seconds" — PolitiTweet.org

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“A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected,” Tobin says when prosecutor Jerry Blackwell mentions Floyd had pre-existing health conditions — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin calculates that Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than three minutes after there appeared to be no more oxygen left in his body — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing that Tobin has emphasized throughout his testimony is that the officer’s restraint could effect anyone this way — perhaps a nod to defense arguments that Floyd’s drug use/bad health played a role in his death — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin testifies that Floyd’s lung volume was reduced by 24 percent from simply being prone on the street. But it was reduced by 43 percent with the pressure of Chauvin’s knees on neck/back — PolitiTweet.org

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A pool reporter in the courtroom says most jurors touched their necks as Tobin gave them an anatomy lesson about breathing — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin testifies that Floyd had enough oxygen in the first minutes of his restraint because he was speaking or making sounds. “You can't speak without a brain being active,” he says. There was a a brief sidebar, now in break — PolitiTweet.org

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Echoing Wednesday’s testimony from a use of force expert, Tobin says Chauvin was using most of his body weight to restrain Floyd. The jury is being shown this diagram https://t.co/x74bTaewzT — PolitiTweet.org

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As Tobin testifies, Chauvin has kept his eyes mostly averted from the photos being shown to the jury. He keeps glancing over at his atty Eric Nelson’s notes — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin says the impact of Chauvin’s knee was narrowing Floyd’s breathing, like trying to breathe through a straw — PolitiTweet.org

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“Mr Floyd has his face rammed into to the street,” Tobin says of the photo. "He's actually using his forehead and his nose and his chin as a way of trying to help him get air into the right side of his chest" — PolitiTweet.org

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Judge Cahill tells the jury they don’t have to do what Tobin is telling them. “Feel free to do it if you wish,” he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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The jury is shown two photos zoomed in of Floyd’s face, Chauvin’s knee on his neck. He’s asking jurors to again feel their own necks to understand what he’s saying about the pressure from Chuavin’s knee. Defense objects — PolitiTweet.org

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As he is asked about the effects of Chauvin’s knee on the neck, Tobin asks the jurors to feel their own throats as he gives them a continued anatomy lesson on how you breathe — PolitiTweet.org

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“He's using his fingers and his knuckles against the street to try and crank up the right side of his chest. This is his only way to try and get air to get into the right lung,” Tobin tells the jury — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin calls attention to a still image of Floyd’s right knuckle against the tire of the squad car, which he says is “extraordinarily significant.” “This tells you that he has used up his resources and he's now literally trying to breathe with his fingers and knuckles" — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin says the way Chauvin and the officers restrained Floyd made it impossible take in air on his left side. The pulling back of his arms, officers putting pressure on his back. "It was almost... as if a surgeon had gone in and removed the lung,” Tobin says of the effect — PolitiTweet.org

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Prosecutors tried to show the jury a graphic showing Tobin’s explanation of the pump handle mechanics of breathing, but defense objects and Cahill sustains. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tobin is speaking directly to the jury about how people breathe, describing it like a pump handle and appears to be coaching them to take deep breaths to understand what he’s saying — PolitiTweet.org

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Chauvin’s right knee was on Floyd’s back and arm and sometimes “rammed” into Floyd’s left side, Tobin testifies. He says Chauvin and J. Alexander Kueng, another officer, pushed Floyd’s handcuffs high and into his back further constricting his breathing — PolitiTweet.org

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The jury is now being shown a 3D animation of the officers depicting how they were restraining Floyd. Tobin estimates that Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s neck 90 percent of the time — says he didn’t have a good view at times — PolitiTweet.org