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A body on the ground, officers on the back which they are, that creates the phenomenon called positional asphyxia, stop the ability to brief waiting to his brain to cardiac arrest. the d.a. in this case in u.s. attorney justice have to and i the other officers as well. these officers are trained, they know what i suspect is on his neck, he cannot put pressure on his back. nobody is talking about that. jon: nobody is also talked with the fact this is a guy told with his arms arms behind his back and put handcuffs on him, he resisted. >> i worked civil litigation for years, we did a lot of train...

Essentially, it says, it doesn't say we can't use newspaper and that's what the state says. it's not best practices, but it's not a violation. again from the newspaper, no action from the state. >> so at the end of the investigation, in addition to his family not knowing how he died or why he was -- why he died, they have just got to accept the fact that somebody took out his organs and did away with them, even though they maybe had some relevance to the cause of death, and they're not going to get any more answers on that? >> well, you know, we spoke with several former members of the fbi and...

The cause of death and they're not going to get anymore answers on that? >> reporter: we spoke with several former members of the fbi and asked is it possible there could be a third autopsy? you've got the competing ones from the state and the independent pathologist would the fbi want their own. it was possible. but now without the lungs that would have actually shown some evidence of positional asphyxia or the tissue from the jaw evidence of blunt force trauma to the neck it's no point of exhuming his body for the third autopsy. they'll have to rely on the reports and the photographs and the...

Impeding that. >> that's all everyone is saying. lawrence, what would you like to know? given your expertise, what are the questions that are screaming out at you to be answered? >> what's screaming out is why did they miss that very important finding of the blunt trauma to the right side of the mand ibl and the carotid body? if you don't have any trauma to the body, then maybe you could say positional asphyxia. but once you know there's been blunt trauma, that's the most likely cause of death. who killed this young fellow. that's the question. >> and i think that is all the parents and certai...

>> the only question we want to know is why are they covering up for who killed their son. >> reporter: it made the johnsons suspicious, including why these shoes found yards from kendrick's body were not collected as evidence and how this bloodstain ended up on the whole wal and why they never found whose blood it was and the state's autopsy. the official cause of death was positional asphyxia, kendrick was suffocated by his body weight but a second autopsy paid for by the johnsons shows he died from blunt force trama, a blow to the neck. hundreds have rallied for months for answers and moore...