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|||{{headline}}Dr. David Fowler, Maryland’s chief medical examiner of 17 years, was called as an expert witness for the defense in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, where the former Minneapolis police officer is charged in George Floyd’s death.Maryland’s former chief medical examiner testified for the defense in the Minneapolis murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with killing George Floyd. Dr. David Fowler’s testimony came at the same time he’s being accused of helping to cover up the police’s role in the 2018 in-custody death of Anton Black, a Black 19-year-old from the Eastern Shore.Anton Black’s family told WTOP ahead of Fowler’s testimony the two cases are eerily similar.When a police officer arrived on scene, the MSP report states the officer got out of the patrol car and “gave a verbal command to Black to get his attention.”The MSP report states the officer then told Black to “put his hands behind his back as he was going to be placed into custody.” At this point, Black began jogging away.“The officers forced Anton into a prone position, so that his face, chest and stomachwere pressed to the ground, and Chief [Gary] Manos laid across Anton’s back, using his full body weight to hold him down and pin him to the ground,” the lawsuit states.“Chief Manos, who is much larger than Anton was, would remain with his weight atop Anton’s slight, 159-pound body for the next six minutes or more, even when Anton stopped moving, and even with the other men further restraining him in additional ways, such as by holding his legs.”After rolling Black on his side and then sitting him in an upright position, you can hear Black’s mother say, “he is turning dark.” Officers then initiate CPR for approximately 6.5 minutes, while waiting for EMS to arrive, according to the MSP timeline of events included in the official report.“The family, the Police Department, the community, everyone deserves to get answers,” Hogan told The Baltimore Sun in . Within 48 hours, Fowler’s office turned over the report to the Caroline County State’s Attorney’s Office. It was released to the public the following day.The ACLU has called Black’s death “a clear example of how white supremacy functions to deny accountability for misconduct and racial bias.”The Maryland Attorney General’s Office, which is representing the state defendants, including Fowler, .Joe Perez, a former internal affairs police captain in Prince George’s County, Maryland, who is not involved in either the Chauvin case or the Black lawsuit, said, in his opinion, Fowler’s role as a defense witness in the Chauvin case constitutes a conflict of interest, given Fowler’s stance as a defendant in an ongoing lawsuit involving an officer-involved death investigation in Maryland.Perez, a former shift commander on a special investigative response team that conducted criminal misconduct cases involving police-involved shootings, said Fowler was known to work closely with the police.“It appears to me that they chose Mr. Fowler as an expert witness so that he can co-sign on their version of what they say happened,” Perez told WTOP.He said in his years of experience in internal affairs, medical examiners and police officers would often become friends over time — and that had the potential to lead to false narratives.But in the 2015 case of Freddie Gray, the high-profile death of a 25-year-old Black Baltimore man who died after suffering spinal injuries during a police van transport, Fowler did rule that death a homicide.||||||||||||Like WTOP on and follow WTOP on and to engage in conversation about this article and others.Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up .© 2021 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you.

|||{{headline}}Dr. David Fowler, Maryland’s chief medical examiner of 17 years, was called as an expert witness for the defense in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, where the former Minneapolis police officer is charged in George Floyd’s death.Maryland’s former chief medical examiner testified for the defense in the Minneapolis murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with killing George Floyd. Dr. David Fowler’s testimony came at the same time he’s being accused of helping to cover up the police’s role in the 2018 in-custody death of Anton Black, a Black 19-year-old...

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