Colin Kaepernick Reveals Program To Offer Second Autopsies In ‘Police-Related’ Deaths
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick disclosed his nonprofit organization intends to offer free secondary autopsies to the family members of people whose deaths were “police-related.”
In a statement, Know Your Rights Camp shared the assistance offered through its Autopsy Initiative will contain “the completion of a second autopsy, disclosure of preliminary findings, and issuance of the final autopsy report.”
The organization stated situations can include deaths that arise in police custody or deaths that occur during “arrest, pursuit, booking, transport, or incarceration,” the statement said.
“The Initiative is aware that losing a family member due to police-related death is a tragic and heartbreaking experience,” the organization said on its website. “The Initiative seeks to be a resource to victims’ family members by providing confidence in the forensic procedures and comfort in knowing the pathologists will conduct the autopsy with neutrality.”
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Kaepernick expressed to The Associated Press, that it is planned to remove concerns about whether the first autopsy performed on a person is valid or whether evidence may have been manipulated during the investigation of their death.
“We know that the prison industrial complex, which includes police and policing, strives to protect and serve its interests at all costs,” Kaepernick told The Associated Press. “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.”