Autopsies completed on the body of black teenager Michael Brown have failed to reveal exactly what happened on Aug. 9 when authorities said white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot the boy in Ferguson, Missouri. That’s because autopsies can only expose so much, say experts.
The shooting launched more than a week of racially charged protests, responded to by law enforcement officers clad in military-grade riot gear, in the St. Louis suburb.
As part of three separate investigations into the shooting, both the county medical examiner’s office and two other forensic pathologists conducted autopsies on the 18-year-old’s body, with the latter autopsy completed at the request of Brown’s family. The U.S. Department of Justice has also conducted a third autopsy. [10 Historically Significant Political Protests]
Even with such in-depth analyses, however, these postmortem investigations may still leave questions. An autopsy, experts say, can reveal how a person died, and in Brown’s case, the angle of entry of his six gunshot wounds. A more thorough examination of the scene and the evidence is necessary to answer key questions about any struggle that may have occurred before the shooting.
“Autopsy and forensic pathology is a kind of medicine,” said Gregory G. Davis, a professor of pathology at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine and the chief coroner and medical examiner of Jefferson County, Alabama, who was not involved in the Brown case. “So you approach your cases the same way other physicians approach medical evaluations — you start with a history.”
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