Jameek Lowery, a 27-year-old Black man, was evidently fatally beaten and choked by police in the back of an ambulance while they were taking him to the hospital for a mental breakdown, an independent autopsy found. The details of that examination shortly after his 2019 death have never been publicly released – until now. They were first reported by the Associated Press last week: Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City chief medical examiner who also did the independent autopsy on George Floyd, found that Lowery died of cardiac arrest and kidney failure from being restrained and beaten by th…
