Dozens of deaths of people who were in police restraint over a 16-year period should have been classified as homicides but weren't, state officials announced Thursday afternoon. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Attorney General Anthony Brown announced at a State House news conference that an audit found the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner misclassified dozens of causes and manners of deaths of people who died while in police restraint from 2003-2019. The attorney general's office launched the audit in 2021 after questions arose about the independence and objectivity of death determinations made by then-Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler that state officials said Thursday were inconsistent with standard practices.
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