Posted on 12/11/2017 10:16:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
I’m a pathologist and this is precisely why I avoided forensic pathology as a career. I have yet to encounter an ME office that at some time wasn’t torn apart by politics, personal animosity and scandal.
I never trusted Jack Klugman.
The doctors’ most serious accusation by far is that the sheriff interfered in cases where law enforcement was involved in a person’s death.
Evidence of a Homicide Withheld
Omalu cited the case of Daniel Humphreys, a father of two who died on a Stockton freeway median in 2008 after crashing his motorcycle as he fled arrest.
In a deposition for a lawsuit brought by Humphreys’ family, Omalu said he was told by investigators that a California Highway Patrol officer had used a Taser on Humphreys once or twice. But when Omalu asked to see a computer record that the weapon automatically generates when fired, he was told there was no report to see. In his autopsy report, Omalu attributed Humphreys’ death to a head injury from the accident.
Two years later, a deputy district attorney shared the Taser report with Omalu. It showed that the CHP officer in fact fired the Taser at Humphreys 31 times. A source close to the sheriff’s office said that the sheriff had access to the Taser report since the day after Humphreys’ death.
“Information was withheld from me, allegedly to mislead me from determining the case to be a homicide,” Omalu wrote in a memo attached to a Oct. 1, 2017 letter to Dr. Sheela Kapre, the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital.
Omalu subsequently amended his autopsy report to indicate that the death was a homicide by electrocution.
That’s a very sad fact.
This guy has a history of speaking truth to power... This Sheriff is going to have a devil of a time claiming the Dr. is off his rocker and an agitator.
The police need to police themselves, or they will be policed. And they won’t like it.
The entire Town and County is corrupt. The County Hospital staff and Doctors is run by Middle Eastern Who have a lot of different practices then We have here. Just saying it is a mess either way.
The police sure do form a powerful, self-interested, group.
In Fullerton CA, the police beat and mauled a mentally ill man to death.
The republican DA prosecuted the police, for the murder. The police chief resigned.
A jury trial found the police not guilty.
I saw a 30 minute video of the incident, and I felt they intentionally inflicted harm on the dead guy. The police were not found guilty of any crime.
I trust and respect this DA. He recently supported police when they shot a man.
When it comes to the established climate of corruption, the last thing the corrupt desire is Climate Change.
It would explain all the fear-mongering about climate change.
The sheriff’s attempts at avoiding wrongful death suits (and the increased ins. premiums) are going to lead to more suits with bigger payouts now that this has become public.
This thin blue line shit has gotta stop.
It's weird and statistically impossible to be justice.
Right, Dr. Omalu is certainly not the "go along to get along" type of person. If that's what they wanted they hired the wrong guy.
Which is not to excuse the action that caused the homicide.
This Nigerian is trying to say that the cops used force on these suspects to intentionally kill them. That assertion requires a bit more proof than A'kimbo is providing.
He needs to stick to slicing up bodies. Law ain't his thing.
Because he was so messy, or because he was a sports writer?
No, not at all. Read the article a bit more carefully.
The National Association of Medical Examiners defines homicide as “death at the hands of another.” In the field of forensic pathology the term does not ascribe motive or guilt.
I trusted him until he stopped being a messy sports writer with a short fuse lit by lady men.......
Omalu's job is to determine the cause of death. It is the Sheriff's job, as coroner, to attribute whether it was intentional or not. Omalu is trying to determine intent by differentiating between "accidental" and "homicide."
Homocide doesn't require intent.
To be honest, I can't determine the intent of the officers involved, absent further evidence, but neither can Omalu.
Again, from the forensic standpoint, homicide is death at the hands of another. That is not the same as an accident. Calling one the other for whatever reason is malfeasance.
Wofie, you're just wrong on this one. While you are right that homicide is the act of one human killing another, there is such a thing as accidental, or even justifiable, homicide. And that is not the Doctor's purview to determine.
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