Nolan Wells’ Examiner Ruled WHAT in a Previous Death Case?

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This is HiddenKillers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

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Oh, there's some questions. Oh, there's some questions in the Nolan Wells case.
Here's a question that nobody in Mississippi's government seems interested in answering. If the person responsible for determining how a black man died documented injuries to his neck consistent with compression by the deputies who arrested him and then ruled it undetermined, why does that person still have a job? Three independent pathologists reviewed the same evidence and called it a homicide. It's not a gotcha. It's not inflammatory. It's a basic institutional question that any functioning system should ask. And Mississippi hasn't asked it, which tells you everything you need to know about the framework. Nolan Wells' autopsy is sitting inside right now.
That's a different case we're talking about there. Same medical examiner.
There's a lot of questions in that case, a lot of evidence actually in that case that chose to, that chose extreme improprieties, criminal behavior.
The Goon Squad was the name of the officers involved in that one. They have since been found criminally responsible for that death, which that medical examiner has labelled or did label undetermined. Same medical examiner that we're dealing with in the Nolan Wells case. Now, I'm not here saying that anything improprietary was done in terms of the Nolan Wells case. I'm saying it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because when you have a track record, when you have a history that is shaded by things like that, whether you intended it to be or not. I'm not here to say that the medical examiner is intentionally trying to do anything wrong.
It doesn't matter because people will draw their conclusions and you have a history that looks questionable, to put it nicely.
Let me take you through how we got here and your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube as we work our way through it. Anybody who's like, why can't people just accept that maybe this was an accident? And maybe it was. It may have, I hear you. But why can't we get there like that? Why can't we just go, let's just take their word for it? It's because of this. It's because of this.
Again, let me take you through how we got here. And I do welcome your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. July of 2021, let's go back in time. Braxton, Mississippi. Damien Carman was 29 years old. He was black. Rankin County Sheriff's Deputy showed up at his mother's house because a neighbor claimed that Cameron had punched a wall. His family says no damage existed. What happens next was documented by hospital record. Sheriff's reports and the state's own autopsy. Deputies repeatedly used tasers on Cameron. At least one deputy pressed a knee into his back. Cameron told them he couldn't breathe. He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. His face was swollen and bloody, almost beyond recognition. When he reached the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's office, the medical examiner documented internal bleeding on the side of his neck, an injury pattern consistent with compression of the upper back of the neck area. She documented the swelling. She documented the bleeding. She wrote it all down. And then Dr. Staci Turner, Mississippi's chief medical examiner, ruled the cause of death undetermined.
Her stated reason in the report, due to lack of access to information involving the circumstances of this death, the cause and manner are best classified as undetermined. A grand jury relied in part on that finding and declined to indict the deputies. The case effectively closed there. One of those deputies, Hunter Elward, walked out of that process a free man. Hold on to that for a minute. In 2023, the New York Times and Mississippi Today asked three nationally recognized forensic pathologists to independently review Cameron's case. Same autopsy photos, same hospital records, same sheriff's reports, same eyewitness statements. Dr. Michael Baden, former New York City chief medical examiner, testified in the OJ. Simpson trial, performed the independent autopsy of George Floyd, looked at the evidence. His conclusion, homicide? Absolutely. Cameron died of asphyxia because of neck compression. Dr. Zanik Hua, chief of forensic pathology at Rutgers, put it more bluntly. He said there was really nothing to be undetermined about. A third pathologist reached the same conclusion, three for three.
All homicides, same evidence, same body, same documented injuries. Turner saw what they saw. She had what they had. They called it a homicide without hesitation. She wrote a word that let the deputies walk. I'm not going to sit here and tell you why she wrote it. I don't know. Maybe she genuinely believed the evidence was inconclusive at that moment in time. Maybe the circumstances she cited, a lack of access to certain information were a legitimate limitation in her view at that time. I don't know the answer to that question. I'd love to hear. I'd love for some context on it. I'm not saying she's doing anything criminal or nefarious. I'm not. I don't know the answer, but I'm telling you what was said and what the findings were and be them as they may. Let the facts lay where they are and where they lay. They look pretty shitty and shady. What I can tell you is what that ruling did. It gave a grand jury permission to close the file. And that's exactly what the grand jury did.