My question therefore, is how can they rule this as a homicide?
.... If it can be proven that the Officers broke with protocol and failed to restrain the perp on many multiple occasions ... which according to this report ... they did .... sounds like the minimum would be manslaughter but probably negligent homicide (the death at the hands of another person(s) through gross negligence or without malice). The charge and punishment would most likely be similar to Manslaughter.
Somebody already talked. One of the accused has spilled the story to TPTB.
“My question therefore, is how can they rule this as a homicide?”
Because:
1. The police violated their own procedures which require prisoners to be secured with seat belts when placed in a police transport vehicle.
2. There is evidence that the police took the man on a so-called ‘nickel ride’ given that what should have been a 10-15 minute drive to the jail took over 40 minutes. There is also surveillance video of the van driving at excessive speed on a city street.
3. Gray can be heard on recordings requesting medical assistance twice and BPD regulations reportedly require at least a welfare check.
4. This is my opinion here: If the injuries are consistent with a vehicle collision, yet the police van suffered no damage and no unusual events were reported by the officers driving the van then what happened that would have caused those injuries? That looks suspicious to me, don’t you see it that way, too?
In any case, the coroner did not find that the injuries were self-inflicted so I hope that the BS story going around that Gray severed his own spinal cord stops.