Added Note from a friend summarizing a doctor's letter to the editor:
Dr Susan Hasti writes in the Star Tribune (of MN I believe)
Eric Nelson, Derek Chauvin's lawyer, is quoted in the paper
having written that "Mr Floyd could not breathe because he ingested a lethal dose of fentanyl..."
Medically this is not possible. An opioid overdose has an effect on the brain that suppresses the drive to breathe.
A lethal dose of fentanyl would cause lethargy, no awareness of a need to breathe, and hence no struggle to breathe.
People under the effects of excess narcotics simply do not care if
