Apparent "hate crime" in Seminole County, Florida

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Your claim and the claim by others that the medical examiner would not release the body to the family for 3 days is false: "According to the medical examiner. It picked up the body at the scene just after 10 p.m. Feb. 26 and notified a Fort Lauderdale funeral home 39 hours later that the body was ready. The funeral home, Roy Mizell and Kurtz, did not pick up the body for an additional 24 hours, the medical examiner reported."

"Volusia County spokesman David Byron said it would be impossible to find out the average length of time the medical examiner there keeps bodies, but said it can vary by several days, depending on circumstances — for example, if there’s a dispute among family members about what to do."

"Dr. Jan Garavaglia, medical examiner for Orange and Osceola Counties, said her office generally releases bodies in 24 to 36 hours."

"The Medical Examiner’s Office in Monroe County — the Florida Keys — said the average there is five days."

http://crayfisher.wordpress.com/2012...ust-the-facts/

There is a lot of other false information out there. WREG separates some of the fact from the fiction in this video:

http://wreg.com/2012/03/28/trayvon-m...-fact-fiction/

And, even after the family had identified their son (via a photo), the body was still labeled as a John Doe, and even though the family had asked the body be released to them, Trayvon's body was not:

<<NATALIE JACKSON: OK, we haven’t received the autopsy yet, so everything we know about where Trayvon was shot comes from the person who prepared the body. And it was in the center of the chest. The release of the body—the parents knew where Trayvon was the next day, when they filed a missing person’s report. However, he was labeled a John Doe for three days, even after the parents identified [him] as [their] son. That is the problem. So that was a little bit of people not quite understanding what happened.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain that?

NATALIE JACKSON: No, we can’t. The parents asked for the release of the body. He was labeled a John Doe. They would not release the body for three days.

JUAN GONZALEZ: So, in other words, they were informed by the next day that he was dead?

NATALIE JACKSON: Yes.

AMY GOODMAN: But was that only after they had filed a missing person’s report?

NATALIE JACKSON: That is correct, after they had filed a missing person’s report.>>

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/3...ey_on_mounting

So, it's a situation where the police have already determined no crime was committed, and yet they refuse to release the body to the parents (or even properly identify it). Why not? There's no conflict over what to do with the body, and the police claimed there was no crime committed. So why delay, and why not label the body properly, since the police knew the identity?