Investigation is launched into 17 YEARS of in-custody death reports by medical examiner who testified that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd

  • Former head medical director Dr. David Fowler’s testimony that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd raised suspicion in the medical world  
  • Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said Friday his office is in talks with Gov Larry Hogan to review all in-custody death reports during Fowler’s 17-year tenure
  • The review comes a day after he received a letter from a former medical examiner in Washington DC raising concerns about Fowler’s testimony
  • Fowler told The Baltimore Sun that he was not aware of any review but defended his office’s work 
  • The review would call into question the validity of all of Fowler’s in-custody death reports from 2002 to 2019 
  • Included in the time period to be reviewed is the death of Tyrone West, in 2012 and Anton Black, 19, who died in police custody in Greensboro in 2018

A former medical examiner who served as a witness in Derek Chauvin‘s murder trial will have 17 years’ worth of his in-custody death reports independently reviewed after he testified that the cop was not responsible for George Floyd‘s death, officials have announced.   

Dr. David Fowler, Maryland’s chief medical examiner from 2002 to 2019, was a key defense witness for Chauvin, who was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May. 

During the four-week trial, Fowler testified that the primary cause of Floyd’s death was a sudden heart rhythm disturbance during police restraint due to underlying heart disease, contradicting several experts who said Floyd had died due to a lack of oxygen.

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