The review follows an audit of police-involved deaths under the tenure of former Chief Medical Officer David Fowler, who testified that George Floyd's death was caused by heart disease and drug use.
![A new audit of autopsies conducted under David Fowler's tenue "will determine whether independent experts agree or disagree with the [the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's] determination of cause and manner of death, whether such experts believe the OCME's determinations were based on adequate investigations," the panel's said.](/sites/default/files/styles/three_two_702x468/public/npr_story_images/2022/10/19/ap21104716151191-ba6ffb86ec64cea6c60ef62b087abb08dfd64b2e.jpg?h=d704b1d1&itok=W3EcIMEr)