Lawyers: Maryland repeatedly mislabeled police custody deaths

The deaths of people in police custody are ruled homicides far less than they should be in Maryland, lawyers suing the state medical examiner’s office argued this week in an analysis for the case of Anton Black, an Eastern Shore teen whose 2018 death prompted historic reform. The family of Black, a Black teenager who died during an encounter with White police officers, settled with most parties in a wrongful death suit this summer but continued a challenge against the medical examiner’s office.