Freddie Gray protestors in Baltimore have succeeded in getting the slain man’s arresting officers to come forward with an explanation for why his spine was severed at the neck, but they’re a bit skeptical of the lame excuse being offered.
According to the culprit cops, Gray’s mortal injuries occurred merely because the suspect had been transported in handcuffs and leg irons “without wearing a seatbelt.”
The six patrolmen involved in the deadly incident have since been suspended, amid five straight days of demonstrations, some of which turned ugly and ended in arrests for disorderly conduct.
In terms of civil and criminal liability, The BPD’s belated claim that the neck wound which led to Gray’s demise a week later was simply the result of a breach of protocol -- as opposed to police brutality -- may be the beleaguered city’s only way out of the present crisis.
Yet the fact still remains that vital dash-cam and body-cam videos are both noticeably absent from the Freddie Gray enquiry, and that Baltimore’s Finest are not so fine when it comes to corruption and excessive force.
A lack of restraint therefore, in the broadest sense of the term, is undoubtedly what did cause yet another suspect’s death while in the custody of the notorious Baltimore Police Department.
Whether on purpose, or “by accident.”
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