The medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide caused by law enforcement restraint last year told a courtroom on April 9 that Floyd’s health history and intoxication contributed to the death. Floyd, 46, suffered from “very severe underlying heart disease” that was a factor in the death, as was the toxicology findings that he had ingested fentanyl and methamphetamines, Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, testified at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. However, Baker stood by his earlier conclusion that the cause of death was “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression. “He experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest in the context of law enforcement, subdual restraint, and neck compression. It was the stress of that interaction that tipped him over the edge given his underlying heart disease and his toxicological status,” Baker said. Cardiopulmonary arrest “is really just fancy medical lingo for …