State officials on Wednesday approved a settlement stemming from the in-custody death of 19-year-old Anton Black, without admitting liability.
Anton Black's relatives appear at a news conference in Denton, Md. The Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will revamp how it handles autopsies of people who die in law enforcement custody under a settlement agreement approved Wednesday by state officials with the family of Anton Black, a Black teenager who died five years ago during an encounter with a White police officer.
The Maryland Board of Public Works, a three-member panel consisting of the governor, comptroller and treasurer, approved the settlement without public comment, resolving a federal lawsuit without any admission of liability.
At issue in the lawsuit was whether the medical examiner applied that standard in Black’s death, said Deborah Jeon, legal director for the ACLU of Maryland. The ACLU, which represented the Coalition for Justice for Anton Black, a grass-roots group that has fought for transparency and accountability in Black’s death, in the suit, argued that it did not.
Black’s death sparked protests in the tiny Eastern Shore community as the family waited more than four months for the autopsy report to be made public.
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