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3.49pm BST

Shortly after Tobin has taken the stand, he gives his opinion on Floyd’s cause-of-death: “Mr Floyd died from a low-level of oxygen and this caused damage to his brain…and it also caused a [pulseless electrical activity] arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop.”

“The cause of the low-level of oxygen was shallow breathing, small breaths…shallow breaths that weren’t able to carry the air through his lungs down to the essential areas [in] his lungs,” Tobin says in response to further questions, noting shortly thereafter: “There are a number of forces that led to the size of his breath became so small.”

3.27pm BST

The Chauvin trial testimony has resumed.

Prosecutors have called their first witness of the day: Dr Martin Tobin, an expert in critical care and pulmonology.

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Source: The Guardian