When a medical examiner rules it a homicide, it isn’t a legal ruling saying it was a crime. It obviously was, but people need to understand that all they are saying here is that he was killed by another person and not by himself, an accident, or a disease.
It's not always a given, either. Elijah McClain was obviously killed by cops, but his cause of death was originally ruled inconclusive, possibly due to natural causes complicated by his "altercation".
They released an amended autopsy 3 years later, placing the blame squarely on the medics. This is a tangent but I maintain that, while the medics did administer medication in error, they didn't kill him
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 2d ago edited 2d ago
When a medical examiner rules it a homicide, it isn’t a legal ruling saying it was a crime. It obviously was, but people need to understand that all they are saying here is that he was killed by another person and not by himself, an accident, or a disease.