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Originally Posted by pylon
The seatbelt mandate was literally 3 days old, and delivered to the officers via an email. It is very likely many of these officers ignored the email or simply had not gotten around to reading it yet. It is unlikely it was a malicious over sight.
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Still, prior to that it was discretionary. They stopped multiple times under the guise of trying to restrain them, and by their own admission Gray was requesting medical attention during one of those stops, even under the old mandate it would be hard if not impossible to argue that they didn't reach the conclusion that he should have been buckled up.
Their own Police Commissioner has said as much.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/freddie...tiny-1.3047140
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But Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said Thursday that here are no circumstances under which a prisoner should not be wearing a seatbelt during transport and "that's part of our investigation.
"Much like any other vehicle, you seatbelt people in and it's our responsibility to make sure people are safely transported," Batts said, "especially if their hands are behind their back."
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They also failed to provide him medical attention.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/0...y-lacked-belt/
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Police say when the lengthy foot chase ended along the 1700 block of Presbury Street, Gray should have immediately received medical attention—but never did.
“Our police employees failed to get him medical attention in a timely manner multiple times,” the commissioner said.
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There's still an investigation taking place, but based on the commissioner's words it seems that at the very least the police were incompetent that resulted in gross negligence and ultimately the death of a 25 year old. The blue shield does not seem to be protecting these officers very well, either Batts is a progressive Police Commissioner or they know these officers ####ed up. Maybe a little bit of both.