roger mitchell, former chief medical examiner of washington, d.c. >> the cause and manner of death thatshed by the original medical examiner suggested that the drugs that were in his system, as well as his underlying heart disease, was but i challengeath. a notion that he died from a drug overdose and a heart disease when he's strapped face down, with a spit hood on his face and being pushed into the soft padding of a, of a stretcher. >> how would you have ruled it? >> based on what i saw, i would i would rule his case a homicide. i would suggest that his death was contributed to by another and when you have any individual that is in altercation with another and you believe that, that is contributory, then that case should be designated as a homicide. >> when an autopsy is done, a pathologist will decide on what's called the manner of death, which is homicide, accident, natural, suicide, or undetermined. >> homicide don't mean that the officers did anything wrong by itself, it just means that the medil examiner is concluding that, but for the actions of the officers, that's what caused