What does it say about the Washington Post that someone who wants to intimidate a witness into changing his testimony has the go-to threat of "I'll write an op-ed for WaPo"

That a lot of people read WaPo

And WaPo would print it

I see nothing wrong with that, especially if it's written well.

If you're the editor of a major newspaper, and you have reason to believe that a column being submitted is an attempt at witness tampering to coerce the medical examiner in a highly publicized trial, would you see no ethical issues to unravel before you print it? Rioters were still torching bodegas in Minneapolis when Mitchell was threatening to direct their anger towards Baker, and he wasn't coy about it.

Why would it be intimidating if you're confident in your analysis? If he is incapable of being objective, he should have resigned. I think it's great for newspapers to be outlets for debate and I'm not sure why you want to silence others.

It really isn't difficult for the defense to find a medical expert that picks apart the findings of the prosecution. It seems to me that this Washington medical examiner basically said, "go back and do your homework because you're going to be embarrassed that you missed something obvious." If anything, this interaction probably saved this man's career because he won't look incompetent.

This isn't a medical expert they found to testify as an expert witness or hold an academic debate. This is a guy who approached Baker and told him to either change his result or he'd personally crucify Baker in the media. And then after the defense did find their own medical expert to testify as an expert witness, this same guy wrote to his former office and accused him of misconduct and demanded they revisit all his old cases and destroy his legacy- a threat for every ME who is even dreaming of defending the other three officers.

It definitely did save Baker's career though. Baker found zero physical evidence of neck compression, and if he had made his topline of the report actually reflect the contents of the report instead of magically drawing it out of thin air, Baker would be out of a job right now- something he didn't really need Mitchell to tell him. That board review for Baker's confirmation renewal as HCME was just a few weeks after the riots, doesn't take Nostradamus to know how that would have turned out if Baker had taken the honest route.

Thundercock isn't a poster anymore. He's a biden shill troll in every sense of the word. His Chinese corporate overlords pay him to have certain opinions and he is a happy slave.

I'm the only one on this forum who has been arrested for assaulting a Chinese national. I put my money where my mouth is. #BuyBangladesh

Was that over Hong Kong protests?