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Dr. David Fowler testified in 2021 in Hennepin County District Court as an expert witness for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, on May 25, 2020.

Fowler concluded that Floyd’s cause of death was heart problems and stated that fentanyl and methamphetamine, and possibly car exhaust, were contributing factors. He said he would have classified the manner of death as undetermined instead of homicide.

More than 400 medical experts signed an open letter alleging that Fowler deviated from standard medical practice in the case and called for an investigation into determinations that his office made in cases in which people died in custody. “Our disagreement with Dr. Fowler is not a matter of opinion,” the letter read. “Our disagreement with Dr. Fowler is a matter of ethics.”

The Maryland Office of the Attorney General later appointed a team to come up with a plan for how to conduct an audit