One thing I haven’t seen mentioned much is that some people captured by the police will let their bodies go limp just to make it more difficult for the police to arrest them. It is a form of not cooperating with the police.
Freddie Gray may have been limp when the police were carrying him off. I don’t know for sure. But the police may have just thought that he was not cooperating. I can understand that.
That is one reason I couldn’t convict any of these officers. I just don’t believe any of them had any intent to harm Gray.
“That is one reason I couldn’t convict any of these officers. I just don’t believe any of them had any intent to harm Gray.”
I agree with that, but that part doesn’t matter for the most part. If he weren’t buckled in, it was reckless endangerment that resulted in a death.
Without indisputable evidence to the contrary, I am always willing to give the LEOs the benefit of the doubt.
“One thing I haven’t seen mentioned much is that some people captured by the police will let their bodies go limp just to make it more difficult for the police to arrest them. It is a form of not cooperating with the police.”
They mentioned something similar on Fox & Friends this a.m. (was only 1/2way listening while reading FR). I think it was then and/or perhaps last night that a former LEO said that some perps make their body go limp to make it look like the police hurt them.