Freddie Gray died after head slammed into bolt in police van: report

[Luiz 4,253]

The Baltimore man whose death in police custody sparked riots and nationwide protests, suffered the fatal injury when his head slammed into a bolt in the back of a police van after his arrest, a report said Thursday.

The probe into Freddie Gray’s death — which occurred while he was still in custody seven days later — found no evidence that his devastating spinal-cord injuries were caused during his April 12 arrest, which was captured on camera,ABC News affiliate WJLA reported, citing multiple sources.

The sources had been briefed on the findings of a police investigation that was handed over to prosecutors on Thursday as well as preliminary reports from the Medical Examiner’s Office.

They said the ME found that Gray, 25, broke his neck and that a wound to his head matched a bolt in the rear of the van, the Washington, DC, station reported.

What exactly caused Gray to slam into the back of the van was unclear. The officer who was driving has not yet given a statement to authorities.

It was also unclear whether Gray himself caused the injury — as another prisoner in the van had reportedly told investigators.

That prisoner said he thought Gray “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” The Washington Post had reported.

He told investigators that Gray “was still moving around, that he was kicking and making noises” up until the van arrived at the police station. He did not see Gray, because the van had a partition.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said the other suspect also said the van’s driver did not speed, make sudden stops or drive erratically.

The news came as evidence emerged showing the van made an unexplained additional stop — between the first and second stops — while bringing Gray to the station.

A camera outside a small grocery recorded the stop. Its owner, Jung Hyun Hwang, said two officers visited his store during the week of April 20 and later made a copy of the surveillance video.

Hwang said he did not review the video with police and didn’t know what was on it. His original recording, he said, was on a laptop that was stolen during the riots and looting Monday night.

Police had previously said the van stopped only three times, including to put leg cuffs on Gray and to pick up another prisoner.

The state Attorney’s Office will review the police findings and the results of its own investigation, then decide whether to seek criminal charges against any of the six cops involved.

All six were suspended following Gray’s April 19 death.

Billy Murphy, lawyer for Gray’s family, said his clients wanted a thorough investigation.

 

full story http://nypost.com/2015/04/30/freddie-gray-killed-by-head-slamming-into-bolt-in-police-van-report/

[RAMROD 117,004]

Unacceptable!

Here is for all the corrupt police officers from around the world:

 

 

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

This is shocking.

My condolences to the family of Freddie.

[Teal Ambition 47,805]

Breaking: Criminal Charges to be Filed Against Police Officers in Freddie Gray Case

http://mic.com/articles/117158/breaking-criminal-charges-to-be-filled-against-police-officers-in-freddie-gray-case?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

[Luiz 4,253]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-man-who-filmed-freddie-gray-video-has-been-arrested-at-gunpoint-10217973.html

 

The man who filmed the Freddie Gray video has been arrested at gunpoint

 

Moore claims that despite having co-operated with two detectives in the Baltimore Police Department’s Office of Internal Oversight and given them the video, police posted his photo and told the public that he was "wanted for questioning", asking people to identify him.

"What is so important that you have to plaster my picture over the Internet? I've already spoken," Moore said, suggesting that they posted it simply to intimidate him.

Moore was asleep in his home on the morning of 12 April, when his uncle yelled to him: "The police are tazing Freddie."

He ran out into the street and instantly started filming on his cell phone as Gray "screamed for his life", one officer putting his knee on his neck as the other bent his legs backwards.

"They had him folded up like he was a crab or a piece of origami. He was all bent up," Moore said.

At the time of writing it seems Moore has been released but his colleagues, Chad Jackson and Tony White, have not, with Cop Watch asking for help from lawyers.

[Luiz 4,253]

Ruled a homicide

Cause of neck injury was being handcuffed in van but not secured by seatbelt
No probable cause for Gray's arrest: his knife was legal, wasn't a switchblade
All six officers charged, charges including 2nd degree murder (for one officer only), negligent manslaughter, assault, false imprisonment, misconduct in office, mishandling of evidence
Warrant has been issued for arrest of officers involved

This is huge news.

Specific charges:

Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr.: Second-degree depraved heart murder, involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, manslaughter by vehicle, misconduct in office.

Officer William G. Porter: Involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office.

Lt. Brian W. Rice: Involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office, false imprisonment.

Officer Edward M. Nero: Second-degree assault, misconduct in office, false imprisonment.

Officer Garrett Miller: Second-degree assault, misconduct in office, false imprisonment.

Sgt. Alicia D. White: Manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office.

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[Woolfsmck 2,763]

This scares me....If citizens are treated like this without repercussions and change in the police force, then 'everyone' is at risk. 

Some of the injuries may have been self inflicted, but spinal injury, breathing tube *larynx*  crushed???

He would have had to jump off a building or something, plus the guy getting arrested for filming the police?????

Civil liberties are clearly being violated .

 

 

[Giorno Giovanna 3,178]

what is a bolt? like an crossbow bolt? or what?

 

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

what is a bolt? like an crossbow bolt? or what?

 

​Doesn't say, but I think they mean a bolt that hold a nut in the door hinge or body of the van.

[Whispering 18,865]

Breaking: Criminal Charges to be Filed Against Police Officers in Freddie Gray Case

http://mic.com/articles/117158/breaking-criminal-charges-to-be-filled-against-police-officers-in-freddie-gray-case?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

I was happy to see this.

Unfortunately, in the past 20 years, only 17 officers in the U.S. Have been charged with murder and NONE of those officers were convicted. 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Oh...so this excuses what the cops did then?