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Forensics: L.A. County sheriff, coroner clash over cop shooting autopsy reports
Cops always get their man. 5 shots in the back. LA Sheriff crows about his “transparency” and “reform-minded” management. Utter bs. After a Los Angeles County deputy killed a man, sheriff’s officials tried to keep the coroner’s autopsy report under … Continue reading
Forensics: Another long road to innocence story. “Trial 4: how a teen spent 22 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”
Netflix documentaries continue to add its voice uncovering the arcane, politicized, and certainly inequitable legal process allowed to prove innocence. Sean Ellis was 19 years old when he was arrested for killing a police officer in Boston. Decades later, he … Continue reading
Forensics: ER docs: 10-25-20 ACEP Rebuts President Trump’s False Statements about Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths
10-25-20 ACEP Rebuts President Trump’s False Statements about Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths — Read on http://www.emergencyphysicians.org/press-releases/2020/10-25-20-acep-rebuts-president-trumps-false-statements-about-overcounting-covid-19-deaths
Forensics: Ignoring Guidelines and Morality. Coronavirus: Mike Pence continues campaign tour despite chief of staff’s positive test
Desperate and ignorant and illegal. Vice-president’s most senior aide, Marc Short, has virus but Pence and wife test negative — Read on amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/25/coronavirus-mike-pence-continues-campaign-tour-despite-chief-of-staffs-positive-test
Forensics: A followup on last post. UK’s top universities urged to act on classism and accent prejudice
I forgot this related topic. A real showstopper for science diversity is cultural bias in higher education. Investigation finds widespread evidence of students being ridiculed over their backgrounds — Read on amp.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/24/uk-top-universities-urged-act-classism-accent-prejudice
Forensics: Rebellious Scientists in ME’s office raise DNA police concerns – New York Daily News
Police in NYC collect DNA from citizens, the ME runs the DNA lab. This battle is ongoing. Over 30K samples exist in their database. An anonymous group of forensic scientists in the city Medical Examiner’s office fired off an email … Continue reading
Forensics: A timeline of Trump’s pandemic failure. His golf, denials and incompetence.
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FORENSICS: The ABCs of how cops cheat with Fabricated Evidence: Forensic Deception, Planted Evidence and Forged Confessions
Shocking? Not really. The National Registry of Exonerations data is quite revealing. By Kelsea Valerio (This is the fifth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. — … Continue reading
Forensics: Mexico’s drug war leaves 39,000 unidentified bodies in its morgues
This is horrible. Investigation by Quinto Elemento Labs finds alarming number of people buried in common graves — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/mexicos-drug-war-leaves-39000-unidentified-bodies-in-its-morgues
Forensics: Psychology. A look at the psyche of DJTrump by @davidfrum: So Trump has confirmed in his own voice that he was not self-deluded about Covid-19.
Thread by @davidfrum: I made this point w @AriMelber tonight am still brooding on it: So Trump has confirmed in his own voice that he was notluded about COVID. He knew the danger – and still opted to do nothing … Continue reading
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