I really wish there was more info on this, which understandably will not come until much much later. I’m really not sure how to feel about this. The kid was clearly a drug dealer with well over a dozen arrests. I would assume that was all the probable cause the officers needed. Just seems strange to me that a kid can die of a broken back while riding in a police van. I just hope this is a fair investigation and not some means of calming the locals. This kid may not have deserved to die but he certainly wasn’t a good person. Good, honest, innocent people are hurt every single day, who don’t get any media attention at all. Why do these thugs warrant any of this attention. I just wish these people could open their eyes and see reason.
No. No. No. That's not how it works. The police do NOT have probable cause to arrest someone just because the person has been arrested before (even well over a dozen times). Nor can the police arrest someone for being a drug dealer. The police can only arrest someone if they have probable cause to believe that the person is committing, or has committed, a crime (e.g., that he was dealing drugs, or some other crime). They did not have that here.
He was 26 when he passed from this mortal coil.
Leni
How come the media says he died a week later? The whole think stinks, and I am not talking about the police. Maryland is a Rat hellhole.