The fact is when a ruling of homicide is given that means somebody killed the victim, whether it was justified or not, natural deaths are not ruled homicides. Since this could hardly be called justifiable homicide(or are you saying these cops were in the right to kill this old man?)then it must be murder or man slaughter at the very least
Homicide is a ruling the Coroner makes when a person dies at the hands of another person. In this case, the Coroner ruled that the man died at the hands of the police. I support the Coroner's opinion.
There is nothing in the article, nor in my posts, that suggests that this incident is a justifiable homicide. Justifiable homicide would be the ruling by the local DA if the police showed that they were in fear of great bodily harm or death. Nothing in the article, nor in my posts, suggests that the police were in fear of great bodily harm or death.
For a charge of murder of manslaughter to be brought, the local DA, the State DA, or the Federal DOJ would have to file the charges. Since there is no statute of limitations on murder, charges can be filed years from now. I don't know the statute of limitations in Florida for manslaughter, but I suspect that this case is still within the statutory time limit for such a charge to be filed.