Death Ruled Not Homicide For Officer At Ground Zero (Or How The NYC Chief Medical Examiner Has Made A Distinction Without A Difference)

A strange decision indeed by New York City’s chief medical examiner to not reclassify the death of a police officer who worked at Ground Zero as a homicide.  Dr. Charles S. Hirsch reasoned that because Officer James Godbee, Jr. did not arrive at Ground Zero until September 13, 2001 (when he then began inhaling noxious dust particles from the [...]