Posted on 06/20/2016 9:42:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Prosecutors tried one last time on Monday to persuade a Baltimore judge to convict the driver of a police wagon in which 25-year-old black arrestee Freddie Gray’s neck was broken on the way to a police station.
Both sides delivered closing arguments after more than five days of testimony in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson on charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter.
Other officers left Gray in handcuffs and leg shackles inside the paddy wagon, leaving him unable to protect himself from being slammed into the van’s metal walls during the ride. Prosecutors say Goodson “breached his duty” when he failed to buckle Gray into a seat belt that would have restrained him. …
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“Initially the state alleged that Goodson gave Gray a “rough ride” with the intention of bouncing the man around and injuring him. But prosecutors made no mention of a rough ride in their closing arguments, and Goodson’s defense accused them of changing their story.”
No rough ride = defense verdict.
Pathetic, they wrote an article while the defense is still presenting closing arguments.
Gray threw himself around the van trying to create enough bruising to claim police brutality. He killed himself.
Wtf is an arrestee
wasn’t there another person in the truck who said he heard Gray banging around (on his own) in an attempt to injure himself?
Also, wasn’t Gray previously involved in ANOTHER incident where he purposely injured himself?
What I think happened is that FG tried to get himself a $million lawsuit payoff and killed his stupid self in the process. AND THE DEFENSE SHOULD SAY SO.
Well, it’s the AP, but still, they used “paddy”.
That’s what I read very early on. There is no way they will get any convictions on this and then Mosby will be going down HARD.
Don’t want a rough ride, don’t get arrested.
Incidentally, ‘rough rides’ are one of the most useful tools for cops in beleagured inner cities to get information out of punks who otherwise have a lethally-enforced code of silence aka “stop snitching”. Such information, need I remind people, is usually where the latest rape/murder/robbery suspect is hiding out or where their gang keeps their gun stash or who’s moving the big shipment of coke base. In other words, really serious $hit where lives are at stake.
They don’t give ‘rough rides’ to 14 year old brats caught stealing a beer from the corner store, folks.
I’m willing to bet that all the rioters in Boston, will put back everything they stole, and fix everything they broke after this guy’s found not guilty.
No. They should show that the ride was not rough and that FG was throwing himself around in the paddy wagon. No need to speculate on this, although I think you are on the money.
Prosecutorial abuse.
Boston?
The state didn't make that argument?
Gray threw himself around the van trying to create enough bruising to claim police brutality. He killed himself.
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I agree. Video shows him faking injury before he was ever put into the van.
Dumb question:
If rough ride is off the table...and I’d bet officers would testify that rides without seatbelts had occurred hundreds of time prior, with no broken necks...how can he be convicted of second degree murder?
Video of Freddie Gray being escorted to police van. I’d seen this, edited, on TV news. It appeared to me that Gray was in distress before he ever got to the van. The whole clip is worth seeing, but actual escorting to van begins at around 1:40. A bystander who was recording the transfer shouted at police, you tase him like that, no wonder he can’t use his legs.
I’ve never heard why Gray was tased.
I always get those two mixed up. It’s Hopeless.
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