{"id":182949,"date":"2015-04-29T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/29\/and-you-wonder-why-i-do-not-believe-this\/"},"modified":"2015-04-29T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T23:04:00","slug":"and-you-wonder-why-i-do-not-believe-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/29\/and-you-wonder-why-i-do-not-believe-this\/","title":{"rendered":"And You Wonder Why I Do Not Believe This\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the Baltimore City state security apparatus <a href=\"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\">has leaked a report that Freddie Gray intentionally injured himself to the <i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray \u201cbanging against the walls\u201d of the vehicle and believed that he \u201cwas intentionally trying to injure himself,\u201d according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The prisoner, who is currently in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see him. His statement is contained in an application for a search warrant, which is sealed by the court. The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate\u2019s safety.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">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\u2019s version, which is just one piece of a much larger probe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s clear that Mr. Gray snapped his neck and crushed his larynx all by himself.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me a <b>LOT<\/b> of that cigar video that the Ferguson police released, or the videos of the victim that were recently released by the Tulsa police department in an attempt to justify the shooting by their septuagenarian &#8220;reserve deputy&#8221; sugar-daddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the Baltimore City state security apparatus has leaked a report that Freddie Gray intentionally injured himself to the Washington Post: A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray \u201cbanging against the walls\u201d of the vehicle and believed that he \u201cwas intentionally trying to injure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1041,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}