On Wednesday,
The Root reported that Dr. David Fowler, a retired forensic pathologist, testified during day 13 of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial over the death of George Floyd. Fowler said on the stand that he believed Floyd’s death was caused by “sudden cardiac arrhythmia” connected to Floyd’s drug use, hypertension, and generally anything else but Chauvin pressing his knee into the back of a human being’s neck for more than nine minutes.
Well, it turns out that Fowler also happens to be a defendant in a federal lawsuit regarding the police-involved death of another Black man who died under circumstances that were eerily similar to that of Floyd, according to the
Associated Press.
...according to AP, Fowler is a defendant in a lawsuit related to the 2018 death of 19-year-old Anton Black, who, according to the
Baltimore Sun, “died in the Caroline County town of Greensboro under the crushing weight of three police officers holding him down” while he was handcuffed and prone.
Fowler was the medical examiner who conducted Black’s autopsy, and in the suit—which alleges that the officers caused Black to die of asphyxiation—he is accused of intentionally covering up for the cops by ignoring evidence of asphyxiation and exaggerating other potential factors in order support the official police narrative.
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