Tyrone West's death In 36 cases in Maryland, which are to be sought according to murder, Audit is stated

An independent examination of the Maryland office of Chief Medical Examiner found three dozen deaths in police custody, which during the almost 20-year term of Dr. David Fowler, including several top -class deaths, Tyrone West and Anton Black, should have been a murders in police custody.

The Maryland General Prosecutor's office is planning to review all cases that have now been identified as murders with the law firm, although the decision does not automatically mean that it is raised or that the police are disciplined.

The first in-the-nation examination report also showed that deaths with black people and people in which the restraint of law enforcement was involved was less likely to regulate than to regulate murders compared to other cases, and that in almost half of the reviews checked, the “lively delirium” was cited as the cause of death. Due to its roots in racism and frequent use, the term “stimulated delirium” was widely discredited as a medical diagnosis in order to justify deaths in police custody. A quarter of the cases examined took place in Baltimore.

“Maryander deserve a judicial system based on transparency, accountability and equity. The results of this examination pave the way for a sensible reform, as medical examiners approach death investigations and suggest changes that could deal with systemic inequalities that last too long,” said the Attorney General Anthony Brown in a press release.

The audit began in 2021, after Fowler testified for the defense during the murder proceedings against the former police officer of Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin and said that George Floyd's death should be classified as a “indefinite” cause. The video of Floyd's arrest showed Chauvin, which pressed against Floyd's neck for more than nine than nine minutes, and Chauvin was ultimately convicted of murder.

More than 450 medical experts signed a letter to the then general provider Brian Frosh, in which an independent review of the office of the practices of the Chief Medical Examiner headed the office from 2003 to 2019 during the term of office of Fowler.

The Audit team selected 87 cases that Ocme examined more than 1,300 deaths in the customer during this period and hired 12 independent forensic pathologists to examine the cases. Three experts were commissioned to check independently in any case and to make their own decisions about the nature of death. In 36 cases, all three experts agreed that death should be ruled as a murder. In another five cases, two of the three experts found that the type of death should have been murder.

In the examination report it was recommended that the OCME use of “stimulated delirium” has a diagnosis, which improves documentation for deaths into custody, creates standardized procedures for examining deaths in connection with reluctance and implemented an external peer check. It also recommends that law enforcement require the use of body cameras in all reluctance, offer better training of the dangers of improper restraint techniques and include specialists in mental health in crisis reactions.

Governor Wes Moore also announced several executives in response to the test results, including the granting of the Attorney General, the authority to check the 36 cases in which the auditors unanimously agreed that death should be called murder. Moore also established a task force for death examinations reserved in customers.

The General Prosecutor's office also started an Ocme -Audit hotline for families who believe that the case of their deceased relative may have been covered under the audit. You can call the hotline at Ocmeaudithotline@oag.state.md.us or by phone at 833-282-0961.

At a press conference, in which the test results were announced on Thursday, Moore said that the pain that the families feel, are “very real” and spent “screaming according to this type of analysis” for a few years to be correct. TaWanda Jones, the sister of Tyrone West, has spent every Wednesday since the death of west to request the accountability for the death of her brother and all victims of police brutality.

Jones has been concerned about the medical examiner's office since 2013 when the office “vaguely” decided the death of her brother. She could not be reached immediately for a comment on Thursday.

The exam also examined the death of Anton Black, a teenager east coast, who died in 2018 after being followed and captured by police officers. His death was originally ruled as an accident, but the new audit found that it should be classified as a murder. Black's death contributed to inspiring the laws on the reform of the police in Maryland, including “Anton's Law”, which made public disciplinary documents available for the first time.

“We still have a lot to process to process this report, and I am not sure whether this processing of what this report reveals will ever be completely determined,” said Moore. “But I know that this is the beginning of the conversation.

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