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Posted on 04/28/2015 4:23:48 PM PDT by revivaljoe
Freddie Gray had a pre-existing spinal and neck injury and had severe damage and scar tissue from an accident that Allstate Insurance was paying him a large structured settlement. Freddie had several unsuccessful spinal fusion surgeries, he most recent spinal/cervical operation was a week and a half before he was arrested. Freddie should have been at home in bed resting and recovering from recent major operation instead of manufacturing and distributing drugs on the streets and resisting arrest. Freddie has a criminal record pages long for manufacturing and distributing controlled dangerous drugs that were cocaine crack heroine etc. along with many assault charges, gun charges, breaking and entering and the list goes on since he was 18 years old (Juvenile records are sealed.) Look at some of this on www.mdjudiciarycasesearch. You will also see where he was trying to cash in his monthly structured settlement for his spinal injury payments to one lump sum through Peachtree Funding, He could have fallen in the wagon from the slippery bench to the floor or twisted his fused spine to reopen his recently fused damaged spine. None police officers that arrested Freddie had a history of police brutality. Freddie was a dangerous career felon with a damaged spine and neck that was supposed to be healing a week and a half after surgery
This is then more reason why the BPD had no excuse for violating department policy and putting the man in the back of a police van without securing him and then taking him on a “nickel ride”.
The plot thickens
Where does it say that police knew this
BTW Freddie has a criminal record pages long for manufacturing and distributing controlled dangerous drugs
So the police were required to ask him to produce his medical records?
I wonder if Mr. Gray told the officers he had surery? They wouldn’t automatically know. Of course he should still have been restrained, but with this being a neck injury, I’m not sure how much protection that would have been.
Irrelevant! LET THE RIOTS REIGN!!!!
I don’t sell crack cocaine so I don’t have to worry about police securing my neck the right way
Ouch. Classic “eggshell plaintiff”
It’s called a pre-existing condition. The actor (in this case the police) has a duty to assume that there is a pre-existing condition. Given the possibility that this was a nickel ride because the cops were frustrated he kept getting away with stuff, then they are IMHO culpable.
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