{"id":150693,"date":"2020-07-03T02:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/03\/how-americas-broken-autopsy-system-can-mask-police-violence\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T02:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:13:26","slug":"how-americas-broken-autopsy-system-can-mask-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=150693","title":{"rendered":"How America&#039;s broken autopsy system can mask police violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A focus on health conditions rather than officers\u2019 actions tells a misleading tale \u2013 and in many areas, coroners need no medical training\u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d With those words, George Floyd, Manuel Ellis and Elijah McClain each seemed to narrate their own deaths. Their autopsies told a different story. Floyd died of \u201ccardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement subdual\u201d, the report said. \u201cAn argument could be made\u201d that drugs in his system were what killed Ellis, officials said. McClain\u2019s cause of death was \u201cundetermined\u201d.Among the many layers of institutional inequality excavated by a nationwide reckoning with racism in the US is a broken system of how and by whom deaths are investigated. In most states, officials who oversee autopsies are not required to have a medical degree. The departments responsible for investigating suspicious deaths often lack funding and oversight, and work closely with \u2013 if not under the supervision of \u2013 law enforcement. As a result, many deaths at the hands of police are never reported as such, or are minimized by diagnoses that blame the victim\u2019s heart disease or mental illness rather than an officer\u2019s boot or bullet. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/02\/autopsies-police-killings-medical-misleading\" target=\"_blank\">How America&#039;s broken autopsy system can mask police violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A focus on health conditions rather than officers\u2019 actions tells a misleading tale \u2013 and in many areas, coroners need no medical training\u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d With those words, George Floyd, Manuel Ellis and Elijah McClain each seemed to narrate their own deaths. Their autopsies told a different story. Floyd died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}