In the second case, there’s fuckery by the coroner.

I don’t think gross incompetence would be entirely unexpected! But it would put really heavy lean into the ‘fuckery’ bucket, definitely.

People have this kind of knee-jerk “the system is going to lie about everything” reaction which sometimes makes them kind of throw up their hands on the concept of every getting to the bottom of anything

I understand, and I wasn’t saying that so much as “Ugh, I really hope this doesn’t get handled poorly”. What I was saying - for clarity - is there is a long history of racism there and enough is off about this to make me put on my “worried” hat. That I would feel more assured about how this would be handled if there were more trustworthy folks involved, but thats unfortunately not an option given the current administration, instead needing to wait not just for the coroner to finish, but for the family to receive his body and have the unpleasant experience of potentially needing to get their own specialist to take a look.

Even just the prospect of a family needing to verify the report is an upsetting reality.