Thursday, April 30, 2015

Suspicious Circumstances

Someone in the Baltimore police force is floating the theory that Freddie Gray was not killed by excessive force but by his own actions in trying to escape from custody.

A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray “banging against the walls” of the vehicle and believed that he “was intentionally trying to injure himself,” according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.

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The document, written by a Baltimore police investigator, offers the first glimpse of what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional evidence backs up the prisoner’s version, which is just one piece of a much larger probe.

Kind of like the guy who committed suicide in police custody by shooting himself in the back five times.

And then there’s Captain Renault’s explanation about the unfortunate death in custody of Señor Ugarte: “I am making out the report now. We haven’t quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.”

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  1. It’s vile. One of the conservative bloggers suggested he broke his back jumping out of a third story window. I heard the cops gave him what’s called a hard ride which is leaving him cuffed but not secured to the gurney even as he screamed in pain.

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