An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered that 41 in-custody police deaths that should have been considered homicides, state officials declared an “accident, undetermined, or natural.” Experts spent four years auditing death cases between 2003 and 2019. “Our research has determined that OCME was especially unlikely to classify a death as a homicide if the decedent was Black or died after being restrained by police,” Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown. Out of 1300 in-custody deaths, the t