Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick launched an initiative by means of his Know Your Rights Camp on Wednesday to supply free, secondary autopsies to these whose demise is “police-related.”
In line with the marketing campaign’s web site, a crew of board-certified pathologists will carry out a second post-mortem, disclose preliminary findings, and situation remaining post-mortem experiences when requested by the victims’ households.
“Our pathologists will actively search the reality to offer the victims’ households with probably the most medically sound reason for demise,” the group stated.
Since police-related deaths are a tragic and heartbreaking expertise, the initiative says the aim is to eradicate considerations for relations in regards to the reliability and objectivity of the post-mortem performed by the state’s coroner or medical expert, the detachment of the post-mortem, the danger of manipulating proof, potential bias on behalf of the coroner or medical expert, or use of defective forensic procedures.
“The Initiative seeks to be a useful resource to victims’ relations by offering confidence within the forensic procedures and luxury in figuring out the pathologists will conduct the post-mortem with neutrality,” the initiative stated.
The previous San Francisco 49ers quarterback final performed within the NFL in 2016, the identical yr he started kneeling in the course of the nationwide anthem to protest racial inequality.
Kaepernick, who led the 49ers to Tremendous Bowl XLVII, and former teammate Eric Reid settled their lawsuit in opposition to the NFL in February 2019.
Within the lawsuit, they claimed homeowners conspired collectively to maintain them each off groups as a result of they knelt by means of the nationwide anthem earlier than video games.