Officials announce the investigation will examine the "policies, procedures, and practices over the past 10 years" to determine if the police department "has engaged in systemic discriminatory practices towards people of color and ensure any such practices are stopped." June 3: All 4 officers now charged in Floyd's death Minnesota's Department of Human Rights files a civil rights charge related to Floyd's death and launches an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department. June 2: Civil rights charge filed against Minneapolis police That same day, Ellison tells SiriusXM's "The Joe Madison Show" that he is "very seriously looking" at prosecuting the other officers in the case, but that the process could take months. And so everything else is a red herring to try to throw us off." The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s autopsy report found that the 46-year-old Floyd died of a combination of causes including “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression” and that his system showed “fentanyl intoxication recent methamphetamine use.” The ME called the manner of death “homicide,” but goes on in the report to state that this “is not a legal determination of culpability or intent.”įloyd's legal team says an independent autopsy determined that his death was a homicide caused by asphyxia "due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain." On June 2, Floyd family Crump derides the Medical Examiner’s report…attacking its inclusion of toxicology results: “The cause of death was that he was starving for air. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA via Shutterstock June 1: Autopsy results revealed