• Zak@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    As the Star Tribune noted, “[h]omicide is defined as a death that occurs at the hands of another person” — as opposed to death by natural causes or suicide, for example — “and does not necessarily mean the person died from a criminal act.”

    I don’t think this was ever in question, even by the most rabid fascists who celebrated it.

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      6 hours ago

      With George Floyd you had many people saying he overdosed, completely unrelated to Derek Chauvin’s actions

      Obviously it wasn’t true, but this is another thing we can point to when people like that try to deflect

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      It wasn’t. This the medical examiner is going to tick one of three boxes. Homicide, Suicide, or Natural Causes.

      Even a justified killing in self defense, which this wasn’t, would be “Homicide” for the medical examiner.

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      6 hours ago

      Any self defense killing is also a homicide. Not sure determines it’s a murder, or if we just have to wait for charges to be filed.

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    7 hours ago

    So, turns out I’m a medical examiner, and so are the phone cameras that filmed it all…

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    5 hours ago

    Because obviously, when you are shot 10 times in the back there is such a high probability that its an accident.

    /S