Activist and former football player Colin Kaepernick launched an initiative to offer free, secondary autopsies to family members whose loved ones died in “police-related” incidents.
Kap is going to be working with a panel of board-certified forensic pathologists who provide a series of services, including autopsies, the disclosure of preliminary findings and issue final autopsy reports to families, CBS News reports.
His goal remove a family having to only rely on the results of initial autopsies performed on family members whose deaths are the connected to or resulted from police-involved incidents. This effort is to avoid a medical examiner or coroner potentially showing bias or leaving out or tampering with evidence in autopsy reports.
“We know that the prison industrial complex, which includes police and policing, strives to protect and serve its interests at all costs,” Kaepernick said. “The Autopsy Initiative is one important step toward ensuring that family members have access to accurate and forensically verifiable information about the cause of death of their loved one in their time of need.”
