Tafari Campbell, a White House sous chef later hired as a personal chef by the Obamas, died while paddleboarding near the Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard home. Police say his death wasn’t suspicious, but social media was soon abuzz with conspiracy theories.
Responding personnel and a medical examiner’s exam revealed no external trauma or injuries, state police said July 25 in a statement provided to PolitiFact by the Obamas’ spokesperson. Dave Procopio, a Massachusetts State Police spokesperson, confirmed that his agency had issued the statement, which was not posted on its public channels.
The police said the initial post-mortem exam by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner"found no evidence that the death was suspicious." The autopsy report hasn’t been released pending toxicology reports, so no official cause of death has been announced. That may take several weeks, police said. State police said the unidentified paddle boarder who was on the pond with Campbell swam to him but couldn’t reach him in time, then swam ashore and notified another person, who called 911. Campbell was not wearing a floatation device, nor was he leashed to the paddleboard, police said.that falsely claimed Campbell suffered head trauma also baselessly claimed the"Obamas called of the autopsy being performed by the local authorities and flew their own mortician from D.C.
Private citizens, even former presidents, don’t have the authority to determine who conducts an official autopsy, and that task wouldn’t be done by a"mortician," which is ainvestigates the cause and manner of deaths that occur under violent, suspicious or unexplained circumstances.
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