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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFerguson Medical Examiner didn't photograph Mike Brown's body because...wait for it...
..."My battery in my camera died."
Straight from the Grand Jury testimony: https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/537261193736368128
FSogol
(45,525 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Is this why the DA said he wouldn't pursue perjury charges? Because if ever their was a document is a bigger fake than the Hitler Diearies, it would be this one.
alcina
(602 posts)Seriously. What is this? Was that actually evidence presented to the jury? It reads like a parody out of Mad Magazine, ca 1960.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)couldn't buy a new battery, or send someone to buy one?
Nothing implausible about that. No, really. Nothing.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)No excuse for that. that is obstruction of justice.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)This is intentional dereliction of duty. If you don't have batteries, it is because you chose to omit evidence.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)...or were ordered to.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)be anything. I hope you understand, thanks.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Retrograde
(10,156 posts)And there were no other cameras or batteries in the area? And the photos had to be taken Right That Second? It wasn't like the body was going anywhere anytime soon.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Liar.
To me, this proves they are hiding something.
gordianot
(15,243 posts)As are batteries. If someone could figure how to put a camera on your phone. Guess then someone would want to confiscate your phone.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)In many places/states, being a trained/licensed medical person is NOT a requirement for being a coroner.
Of course, even if true in this case, an IQ higher than rainwater should be a requirement.
Amazing how the town/county/state guys all pull together, isn't it?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The police up here in Minnesota are pretty bad, I have seen some stuff in my travels. However, they wouldn't try to pull this ever. The times they have tried created a backlash they don't like. For example, their was a shooting of a guy from another country can't remember which one, but he didn't speak English. Anyway he was carrying a sword and a large pipe in Uptown Minneapolis and the police swarmed him and told him to drop his weapons he didn't and they fired on him killing him. Lots of people came out to protest that and in this case there was far more reason to believe he could be dangerous than in the Mike Brown murder.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)..."Damn, my battery died."
"Here's a new one."
"Thanks."
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nilesobek
(1,423 posts)has him face down on the ground.
OK, this is rank speculation: Did the medical examiner deliberately not photograph the body because the resulting pictures might "incite," the populace? Or just a simple coverup of evidence?
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)...you document *how* the bullets hit the body, as in from what distance, trajectory, etc.
Can't have that.
hexola
(4,835 posts)Confiscate his work computer, camera and account for every picture during that time period.