So Freddie Gray Injured Himself....

[global1]

Rachel just reported that from the Washington Post. His injury was self-inflicted. So the whitewash begins. This is just not the hour that you want that info to come out - this close to cerfew.

[AuntPatsy]

1. Second time, that's sick and shoul not even be repeated on news!!! His poor family

[bravenak]

2. Srsly?

That's the story they gonna go with? He did it to himself? I bet he turned into a demon to do it. We black folks are magical.

[FSogol]

3. Did Laura Vozzella write that article? n/t

[Scootaloo]

4. So it's like that scene from highlander

Connor MacLeod: Wanna hear another theory?
Lieutenant Frank Moran: Uh-huh.
Connor MacLeod: This Fasil was so upset about the lousy wrestling tonight, that he went down to the garage and in a fit of depression cut off his *own* head!

Fuck's sake. No, a spine broken in three places and a crushed larynx are not 'self-inflicted."

[cwydro]

5. I keep seeing this.

But no links?

[former9thward]

8. Link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/prisoner-in-van-said-freddie-gray-was-banging-against-the-walls-during-ride/2015/04/29/56d7da10-eec6-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert

[cwydro]

13. Thank you.

Wow.

Amazing. Just beyond belief that they want to make this fly.

[Starry Messenger]

6. wtf.

[GGJohn]

7. Link? eom.

[former9thward]

9. Link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/prisoner-in-van-said-freddie-gray-was-banging-against-the-walls-during-ride/2015/04/29/56d7da10-eec6-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert

[GGJohn]

11. Thanks.

I saw you had linked to the story in another thread.
IMHO, that's crap, I wonder how much they promised this "prisoner" if he would write a statement saying that?
Or how much the police threatened him if he didn't?

[former9thward]

12. A lot of this will depend on the medical examiner's report.

And I assume there will be an independent autopsy performed.

[GGJohn]

16. I fervently hope that the parents demand an independent autopsy. eom.

[cwydro]

15. My thought too.

Someone is getting a deal.

[JimDandy]

10. Oh WOW...

That's insane. He was already seriously hurt before the police put him in the van.

Something needs to be done about that police department for sure, if that's how they are going to play this.

And they put that out while still not releasing any legitimate reason for his arrest?

[sharp_stick]

14. Yet another reason

why every cop needs a body camera. If this is true a body camera would prove it.

Every cop in every city should be equipped with a camera. Nobody trusts them anymore and nobody should trust them after the last several episodes.

[hollysmom]

17. I think that is impossible.

[lapfog_1]

18. It's exactly the right time to leak this story to the press

if you want to stir anger in the protesters and cause another riot.

One that must be forcefully repressed.

and makes the protesters look like "a bunch of thugs" (to use the current N-word).

and then nobody looks into the "rough" ride or nickel ride back to the precinct or the injuries sustained during the arrest, an arrest that should have never happened because the "perp" never committed any offense or was wanted for anything other than "running while black".

[Warren Stupidity]

19. Reminds me of another young black man

who "injured himself" to death in a police van. South Africa. Steven Biko. 1977. It was the beginning of the beginning of the end for the apartheid regime.

[justiceischeap]

20. Can one have a seizure from a spinal injury of this magnitude?

Very easy explanation for what the second prisoner, whom was separated by a divider, "saw." I just find it hard to believe that someone would thrash themselves about so violently that they'd crush their own larynx and cause an 80% sever of the spinal cord. Of course, if your larynx is crushed and you can't breath properly, I could see thrashing around trying to breath or in panic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Jaysus, so you are telling me the false PD twitter feed

had it right? We came this close to sort of running it until I realized the screen cap I got was not from the actual twitter feed.

Unfricking unbelievable! Except I believe it... these days I believe it.