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.
Going limp is standard operating procedure for a guy playing the system. It makes the cops work harder. Plus, the ME report said that upon injury, breathing would be impossible and death inevitable. He was breathing and not in distress in the video.
Testimony also showed that at one stop, he was on the floor and assisted the officer who was helping him back into his seat.