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In reply to the discussion: CNN Breaking News: Six police officers have been charged in the death of Freddie Gray [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)47. There was clear, easily demonstrable intent to injure, if not to kill.
Gray is not the first person to come out of a Baltimore police wagon with serious injuries. Relatives of Dondi Johnson Sr., who was left a paraplegic after a 2005 police van ride, won a $7.4 million verdict against police officers. A year earlier, Jeffrey Alston was awarded $39 million by a jury after he became paralyzed from the neck down as the result of a van ride. Others have also received payouts after filing lawsuits.
For some, such injuries have been inflicted by what is known as a "rough ride" an "unsanctioned technique" in which police vans are driven to cause "injury or pain" to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees, former city police officer Charles J. Key testified as an expert five years ago in a lawsuit over Johnson's subsequent death.
As daily protests continue in the streets of Baltimore, authorities are trying to determine how Gray was injured, and their focus is on the 30-minute van ride that followed his arrest. "It's clear what happened, happened inside the van," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday at a news conference.
Christine Abbott, a 27-year-old assistant librarian at the Johns Hopkins University, is suing city officers in federal court, alleging that she got such a ride in 2012. According to the suit, officers cuffed Abbott's hands behind her back, threw her into a police van, left her unbuckled and "maniacally drove" her to the Northern District police station, "tossing [her] around the interior of the police van."
For some, such injuries have been inflicted by what is known as a "rough ride" an "unsanctioned technique" in which police vans are driven to cause "injury or pain" to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees, former city police officer Charles J. Key testified as an expert five years ago in a lawsuit over Johnson's subsequent death.
As daily protests continue in the streets of Baltimore, authorities are trying to determine how Gray was injured, and their focus is on the 30-minute van ride that followed his arrest. "It's clear what happened, happened inside the van," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday at a news conference.
Christine Abbott, a 27-year-old assistant librarian at the Johns Hopkins University, is suing city officers in federal court, alleging that she got such a ride in 2012. According to the suit, officers cuffed Abbott's hands behind her back, threw her into a police van, left her unbuckled and "maniacally drove" her to the Northern District police station, "tossing [her] around the interior of the police van."
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CNN Breaking News: Six police officers have been charged in the death of Freddie Gray [View all]
brooklynite
May 2015
OP
What is the world coming to CNN with the correct story but just wait they will screw it up.
gordianot
May 2015
#2
I have been saying that Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Commissioner Batts want justice here.
Vattel
May 2015
#8
Manslaughter vs murder is probably a legal definition vs common definition issue.
jeff47
May 2015
#14
Was the real crime when they put him into the paddy wagon without securing him with a seat belt? I'm
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#15
Thanks! I missed the opening few minutes of Ms. Mosby's press conference and so did not
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#21
Anyone know why the thread on this in Latest Threads was locked? It said it was off topic? Have
jwirr
May 2015
#23
good! and I am also glad to see that the level of the charges seems appropriate
Amishman
May 2015
#38
There was clear, easily demonstrable intent to injure, if not to kill.
Jackpine Radical
May 2015
#47
Any superior who participated in a coverup was an accessory after the fact,
Jackpine Radical
May 2015
#48