Clearly a cop hating RINO
Why the need to speculate in these circumstances?
The defense counsel doesn’t necessarily have to explain how it happened but just that it didn’t happen the way that the prosecution says it did.
Another one bites the dust!
Clearly the cops are out of control.
There is more than one bad cop in the world. And there is more than one good cop. The problem is the system punishes the good cops for turning in the bad ones—making most of them bad cops or quasi bad cops.
They need a true outside police review panel (not internal affairs). They all need to wear body cams & mics. Cops need to get twice the maximum penalty for any crimes they commit while on duty or acting in a police capacity.
Carson has seen the autopsy report?
Nobody said he got the injury by rolling around. The medical examiner said the injury was consistent with a bolt on the back of the van. Why is Carson commenting on the injuries when he hasn’t seen the autopsy?
A lot of people think Dr Carson is such a good doctor that he should be president.
But I am not one of them.
It sounds like Carson’s trying to refute the Prosecutors statement that the injury was the result of Gray not having a seatbelt on in the van. But in doing so he’s cast even more suspicion on the police. If Gray was walking before the arrest and he was injured in police custody and the injury wasn’t the result of not having a seatbelt on then what did the cops do to sever his spine, and where and how did they do it?
FWIW, my wife is a surgeon.
She is of the belief that it is almost impossible for a person in a relatively closed space to break their neck themselves — the neck is tough and it takes some velocity and a hard surface. MAYBE hit it just right on a bench or something, if totally whacked out on extreme drugs.
“head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before retiring in 2013”
Seeing how he worked in Baltimore, is a neurosurgeon, and is running for President. I could see where he might have an opinion about this.
I just think it was foolish to make such a statement of near certainty without knowing all the facts.
He should have said something like he can’t make a medical decision without knowing all the facts.
Ben Carson likely has not looked as deeply into this case as many here who have been following the story the whole time. Moreover, having been away from his neurosurgeon practice he is probably not as up to date on spinal cord injuries as some posters.
Just another case of an neurosurgeon thinking he is smarter than eve tine else.
What does that question have to do with leading the country?
Pray America is waking
Yes. An exposed bolt could definitely do the job. A metal rod is stronger than flesh or discs. You don't have to be an MD, physicist or mechanical engineer to figure that out.
And so the Carsonisms begin.
He thinks that inanimate objects commit crimes. His opinion is of no value. Despite for not drinking all the liberal Kool-aid and making some valid statements about the direction our country is going, he never was and still isn’t a Republican.
Well, if you wanted someone “speculating”, then Ben Carson is someone who could make a pretty good guess.
Well I respect his opinion. I do think if Gray was trying to slam the door open to escape that he could have caused the injury himself.
After reading it in more detail (should have started out that way), I see that Carson is just saying it couldn’t have happened by just a failure to place a seatbelt on him like the prosecution is charging.
Well...won’t he just make a perfect “expert” for the prosecution?