Coroner's report: The guy beat to death in Bakersfield by cops died of heart disease [View all]

[The Straight Story]

THE CORONER'S REPORT

At a press conference on May 23, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, who is also the Kern County coroner, released his office's 44-page autopsy and toxicology report on Silva.

The father of four died May 8, less than an hour after a struggle with several law enforcement officers who tried to arrest him after he was found sleeping on a street corner in east Bakersfield

The autopsy, conducted by pathologist Dr. Eugene Carpenter, concluded the manner of Silva's death was accidental, Youngblood said. The cause of death: hypertensive heart disease.

In other words, the coroner's report found that Silva died because he had a heart condition, not because of his struggle with law enforcement officers.?

"Other significant conditions" listed in the report were acute intoxication, chronic alcoholism, severe abdominal obesity, chronic hypertension and acute pulmonary cardiovascular strain.

Nowhere in the report did the pathologist assert that the multiple dog bites, multiple strikes from three deputies' batons, the fact that Silva's wrists and ankles were tied together behind his back, or the struggle itself were contributing factors in Silva's death.

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1891155809/Autopsy-answers-many-but-not-all-questions-about-Silvas-death