Independent Autopsy Rules br George Floyd's Death a Homicide br by 'Asphyxiation' According to CNN, br an independent autopsy was br performed on George Floyd's body after the Hennepin County Medical Examiner br found "no physical findings" to "support a diagnosis br of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation." The new autopsy says br that Floyd's death was a br homicide and that he died of br "asphyxiation from sustained pressure." Ben Crump, attorney for the Floyd family, says that Floyd br was practically "dead on the scene" after ex-police br officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. Attorney Ben Crump, br via CNN Chauvin has since been charged with br third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, br but Crump and other supporters say he should be br charged with first-degree murder. Medical Examiner Dr.