From the police officers at the scene and their commanders to prosecutors and medical examiners, the system shields officers from scrutiny.
Many more people have died after police subdued them than the American public knows.
- The AP found that over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them with physical force that is not supposed to be lethal.
- New details open fresh wounds for a mother who had believed her son died of an overdose.
As she sped to Turner’s apartment on that warm humid night in August 2017, Goodwin called and alerted her husband, Brian, and older son, Dustin.
When she arrived, Goodwin found her son gasping for breath on the linoleum of his kitchen floor.
She peered inside: Her son seemed like he was unconscious, with a strange sort of mask pulled over his head. »
