Freddie Gray's death was a homicide
Si vis pacem, opera para iustitia.
Freddie Gray’s death was officially ruled a homicide and all six Baltimore police officers involved in his death will be charged. (Crossposted on Facebook
Gray died on April 19, a week after he was arrested by Baltimore police. Gray, hands cuffed behind him, was placed in a police van to be taken to the precinct where he was expected to be charged with illegally possessing a knife, according to charging papers released by police weeks ago. At the end of the ride he was hospitalized where he later died of a severed spine.
On Friday, Mosby said police lacked probable cause for the initial arrest. The knife was not a switchblade and was legal under Maryland law.
Mosby also detailed how Gray was transported in a police van that stopped four times.
Gray was not secured in a seat belt during the trip and was repeatedly refused medical care, she said.
Gray’s arrest was illegal and the way he was treated by officers led to the charges of murder and manslaughter, Mosby said.
Experts: You Can’t Break Your Own Spine Like Freddie Gray • 2015 Apr 30 • The Daily Beast (crossposted on Facebook
[It’s] highly unusual [if not impossible] to deliberately make yourself a quadriplegic while shackled in the back of a police van.
I didn’t even have to do a neurosurgery of orthopedic surgery residency to figure this one out on my own.
From comments on Monique Judge’s post:
Law enforcement sources say Freddie Gray suffered head injury in police transport van • 2015 Apr 30 • ABC 7 • WJLA (via Eric Beehler)
EXCLUSIVE: Where’s the bolt that ‘killed Freddie Gray’? Standard-issue police van has SMOOTH cage doors, raising questions over leaked report that says fall in paddy wagon caused catastrophic injury • 2015 Apr 30 • Daily Mail (via Andrew Chang)
Updated route of Baltimore Police van proves they were deliberately off course with Freddie Gray • 2015 May 1 • The Daily Kos (via Andrew Chang)