I had the opportunity today to read the appeals case in the so-called “rough ride” case from about 5 years ago. In that case, the guy wasn’t secured, and was cuffed, but he kept banging against the barrier behind the driver and demanding she stop to let him use the restroom. In the middle of that activity, he apparently got injured, and when they opened the door, they found him conscious, but unable to move his legs. The officers then removed him from the van, drove him to the hospital, and put him in a wheelchair to roll him to the ER. The primary issue in that case was that they should have stabilized the injury before moving him. The severity of his injury, which subsequently lead to his death, was believed to be increased by the improper handling. So there’s a third possible cause, which can’t be ruled out until we know how he was handled at the scene. Fourth is any of a multitude of possible mishaps during his hospital stay.
On YouTube at the moment is the news conference from 4/20, the day after his death, in which the Police Commissioner states that he had a conversation with the coroner following the autopsy on that date and the coroner opined, “we may not know the answers to all the questions”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1XGPJtS_6g
Normally, what they would have been waiting for would have been the full tox results and the results of any special tissue examinations that might have been requested. So that’s what would be new in the autopsy results she has now. Either they don’t help her case, or she’s just game playing trying to slow-roll the defense. I think we’re safe in assuming, given her behavior so far, that she’d be trumpeting anything that proved her assumptions to be correct.
You are absolutely correct, and that option should not be forgotten.
Did the police van go to the police station, then upon finding Freddie unconscious, did they ferry him to the hospital ?
If so, did they just take him as he was, or did they attempt to move him ?