[FourtySeven]

Just a little local reportage to add some context: apparently there’s a practice in the Baltimore PD known as “driving cowboy”. This is when the driver of a van with prisoners in the back drives recklessly around corners and such, causing the ones in the back (who are not restrained with safety belts, they may be in shackles but apparently there aren’t any safety belts in the back of these vans) to fly around hitting the sides of the van.

So this isn’t looking good for the boys in blue of Baltimore. I just hope the city doesn’t become another Fergeson.

[Travis McGee]

See #5, “The Nickel Ride.”

[sargon]

Most vehicles have a "black box" nowadays, so maybe there is some data that might indicate how the vehicle was maneuvered during the ride.

But, now that I think of it, it might only be a 30-second loop of data, so there might be nothing of use there.

My gut instinct tells me that this was deliberate brutality.

We shall see... or not.