Here at ProPublica, we've had several encounters with Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Frank Minyard, whose office investigates suspicious deaths for the city of New Orleans.
Most recently, I went around and around with the coroner about the autopsy of a man named Matthew McDonald. Police shot McDonald to death in 2005 shortly after Hurricane Katrina tore through Louisiana. I needed the report for a story I was working on with journalists at the New Orleans Times-Picayune and PBS "Frontline."
First, one of Minyard's deputies … more…
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A.C. Thompson has been a reporter for 12 years, mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2006-2007, he was an investigative reporter for SF Weekly. For eight years before that he worked in a similar role for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His work has also appeared in a number of national magazines. His work received the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2005. Thompson is co-author of the book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights.