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Originally Posted by pylon
And this has come out, and it is my personal opinion of what likely led to his broken neck:
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A couple things. First, the anonymous other prisoner never saw anything. He heard banging on the wall.
Far more importantly, the prisoner was the third stop the police made while transporting Gray by the police's own admission. The first, according to the police, was to put him in leg irons for being irate. The second time they found him on the floor requesting medical attention. This is before the other prisoner was even picked up.
Not during the initial arrest or three subsequent stops was Freddie Gray properly restrained. If the narrative the police want to construct is that Freddie Gray severed his own spine, they still completely failed to follow the mandate to restrain him with a seatbelt. He was in their custody, they absolutely have a duty to provide reasonable protection to the individuals in their custody - even if it means from themselves. They failed. Completely. Even under the best circumstances they are still responsible and every protester has a right to be furious. Under no circumstances would I condone the violence and rioting though.
And while I'm all for the waiting for evidence approach, if we're jumping to conclusions the far more obvious one is that this was a nickel ride and not the case of someone severing his own spine as a #### you to the cops. Maybe you can accidentally forget to restrain a person the first time, when you have to stop multiple times and at one point he's on the floor requesting medical attention the very least you can do is put the damn seatbelt on him.