.reidout Blog: Conflicts of interest and clerical errors have caused a federal database to undercount police killings by roughly 17,000, according to a new report.
in May 2020, enlisted Maryland’s former chief medical examiner to testify as an expert witness during Chauvin's trial.
Despite overwhelming evidence showing Chauvin murdered Floyd, the former medical examiner, Dr. David Fowler, that the cause of death should have been left “undetermined.” He also said Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm disturbance as a result of heart disease and carbon monoxide poisoning from vehicle exhaust.in May brought to light racist trends in medical examiners’ diagnoses. The Times found doctors have used the sickle cell trait — disproportionately found in Black people — to help explain away instances of anti-Black violence by police.
To be clear, Thursday’s report on police killings said the incorrect numbers could be attributable to several factors, not just conflicts of interest. For example, “only some cities have forensic pathologists to act as the coroner,” researchers wrote. “And in small, rural counties, the coroner can be a physician with no forensic training, the sheriff or a mortician.”
Inaccurate data can also occur as a result of a medical examiner “failing to indicate police involvement in the text fields of the death certificate’s cause of death section,” according to the studyIn other words, an unknown number of these unreported police killings could have been clerical errors.
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