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Police officers block a street near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco, Sunday, May 31, 2020, at a protest over the Memorial Day death of George Floyd. Floyd was a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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The Latest: Family-ordered autopsy: Floyd died of asphyxia
June 2, 2020 1 a.m.

The Latest: Family-ordered autopsy: Floyd died of asphyxia

An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd�s family found that Floyd died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the Floyd family�s attorneys said Monday