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justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:25 PM Apr 2015

6 Baltimore police officers suspended in Freddie Gray case

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/charging-documents-freddie-gray-ran-from-police/32468120

Baltimore City police have since suspended six officers involved. During a news conference Monday afternoon, police showed video from one CCTV camera near the scene.

"Our community is experiencing a great deal of trauma," Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said during a news conference Monday afternoon. "This is a tense time for Baltimore. I'm angry that we are here again, that we have to tell another mother that her child is dead."

Why did officers pursue Gray?

According to a police charging document obtained by the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team on Monday, officers arrested Gray on a west Baltimore street because he "fled unprovoked upon noting police presence in the neighborhood."

"The officers made eye contact, he ran, and the officers pursued," Batts said.


According to the police, in the autopsy no other injuries other than the spinal cord injury could be found.
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6 Baltimore police officers suspended in Freddie Gray case (Original Post) justiceischeap Apr 2015 OP
Wild guess, but probably he broke his own neck, what with his hands and feet shackled. Cretins. libdem4life Apr 2015 #1
Of course, he threw himself around in the back of the van justiceischeap Apr 2015 #2
That's pretty obvious. Watching them lie with a straight face. Getting old. libdem4life Apr 2015 #3
If he could run it would indicate it was not Downwinder Apr 2015 #4
Now it is a crime to avoid cops? Downwinder Apr 2015 #5

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
2. Of course, he threw himself around in the back of the van
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 09:53 PM
Apr 2015

Which is why they had to stop and shackle his feet (and then toss him back in the van face first). And then he banged his chin on the floor of the van until he broke his neck.

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