Hennepin Cty Med Examiner Classified Renee Good's death as a homcide.

[Baitball Blogger]

Read carefully. Looks like they gave the cop an out.

After 15 days, Hennepin County medical examiner classifies Renee Good’s death as homicide

More than two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of Renee Good a homicide.

The office released the information on Jan. 22 concerning the 37-year-old Minneapolis woman’s killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in a form that was posted to its public data portal.

Homicide is defined as a death that occurs at the hands of another person and does not necessarily mean the person died from a criminal act.

When the office released the same form one week after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020, it also included this explanation: “Manner of death classification is a statutory function of the medical examiner, as part of death certification for purposes of vital statistics and public health. Manner of death is not a legal determination of culpability or intent, and should not be used to usurp the judicial process. Such decisions are outside the scope of the medical examiner’s role or authority. Under Minnesota state law, the medical examiner is a neutral and independent office and is separate and distinct from any prosecutorial authority or law enforcement agency.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-15-days-hennepin-county-medical-examiner-classifie

[Abnredleg]

1. That's not an out, but rather a statement of the law

Next will be a determination as to whether it was lawful or unlawful.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Just me, an average layman, hoping for too much.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. It's not an out. They did their job as required.

[Ocelot II]

4. It's not an "out." It's not the medical examiner's job to opine as to whether a crime was committed.

A homicide, as far as the ME is concerned, is simply a death caused by another person. The ME is not empowered to decide whether or not a prosecutable crime, e.g., murder or manslaughter, was committed. They are only saying that the death was not accidental or from natural causes. The statement is simply what the law empowers an ME to conclude.

[sarisataka]

5. Exactly as the ME should do

the ME does not determine if the death was a crime, that is the job of the legal system. The ME determines the manner of death from a limited number of options: Homicide, Suicide, Natural, Accidental, Undetermined...

[John1956PA]

6. For purposes of the M.E. report, there are only five possibilities.

As posted above, the five possibilities are:

1. Homicide
2. Accidental
3. Suicide
4. Natural
5. Undetermined.