{"id":182963,"date":"2015-04-26T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/26\/the-police-story-on-the-freddie-gray-killing-changes\/"},"modified":"2015-04-26T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:04:00","slug":"the-police-story-on-the-freddie-gray-killing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/26\/the-police-story-on-the-freddie-gray-killing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Police Story on the Freddie Gray Killing Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, what a surprise.  Once what happened to Freddie Gray became a matter for independent investigation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/apr\/25\/freddie-gray-police-backtrack-over-possible-explanation-for-death\">the police story changed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Police chiefs in Baltimore retreated on Friday from earlier claims that Freddie Gray, whose death has caused an outcry, must have been injured inside the van carrying him after his arrest.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They said they were investigating what happened during one of the stops made by the vehicle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Asked whether Gray was fatally hurt by a so-called \u201crough ride\u201d without a seatbelt in the back of the vehicle, or could have been injured outside the van, police commissioner Anthony Batts said at a press conference there were \u201cpotentials for both of those\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf someone harmed Freddie Gray, we will have to prosecute him,\u201d said Batts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Deputy commissioner Kevin Davis said officials were looking into the second of three stops the van\u2019s driver made after Gray was arrested on the morning of 12 April. \u201cThe facts of that interaction are under investigation,\u201d said Davis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gray, 25, died last Sunday after suffering a broken neck and injured voice box. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said earlier this week \u201cwhat happened happened inside the van,\u201d echoing a police report that said Gray \u201csuffered a medical emergency\u201d in the vehicle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Davis said Gray said he needed a medic during a third stop by the van, made to pick up a second prisoner, but an ambulance was not called until 25 minutes later, after the vehicle arrived at police headquarters. Batts told reporters that during the third stop, officers \u201cpicked him up off the floor and placed him on a seat\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Batts said on Thursday that the second prisoner, who was separated from Gray by a metal wall, told investigators that Gray was \u201cwas still moving around, that he was kicking and making noises\u201d until the van arrived at the station. Police are declining to identify the man due to his status as a witness in the criminal inquiry.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This thin blue line crap needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>We not only need to go after don&#8217;t cops, we need to go after cops who refuse to go after bad cops.<\/p>\n<p>Zero tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, what a surprise. Once what happened to Freddie Gray became a matter for independent investigation, the police story changed: Police chiefs in Baltimore retreated on Friday from earlier claims that Freddie Gray, whose death has caused an outcry, must have been injured inside the van carrying him after his arrest.They said they were investigating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963"}],"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=182963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}