Tossed a multiple offender (like seemingly every day) in the paddy wagon for a trip downtown and forgot the seatbelt. Sure, that’s “depraved heart murder.”
There's the rub.
The idiot Mosby has painted herself into a corner and is squirming about looking for some way out.
A civil issue or safety issue? And?
The city gets sued and his family gets wealthy. And they're going to send the cops to some violent prison over that?
I don't think so.
Somewhere along the line we will probably hear that they were ordered at some time to stop belting people in
When in doubt... make it up as you go.
Hey, how are the prosecutors doing on the pursuit of the record number of MURDERS in their city over the past month and a half?
I am waiting for Mosby to charge herself. Reportedly, Mosby had her subordinate ask the police for enhanced enforcement at the exact high-crime intersection where Gray was arrested. Police brass passed along orders to street cops, including the idea that they needed “measurables” (i.e., arrests).
Before this came out, I wondered why police bothered to chase down and arrest Gray for possession of a relatively small “spring-assisted” knife, when the courts seem to let him go crime after crime. Now the answer is obvious: to run up stats for Ms. Mosby by making an easy arrest of a habitual offender.
Did Mosby set the police up on purpose, as part of a plan to campaign against police brutality and make her career?
She doesn’t seem that complex a thinker, though someone else might have prompted her to it. More likely, she lacks the experience to know that when you pressure police for “results”, they will use the tools they have.
Mosby now finds that she MUST prosecute the cops for false arrest and deliberate “depraved” misdeeds. She has a flagrant conflict of interest in convicting the officers of acting illegally, not in accordance with her orders. The six officers might be guilty, might not, but their case must be prosecuted by a disinterested party. Absent judicial corruption, Mosby and her department will be removed from the case.
What about the Government Leaders who implored the Police to crack down on Drug Dealers, like Freddy Grey. The Leaders urged Police to do more to tamp down on Crime.
When the cops were chasing Freddie, he ducked into a building for awhile and then came out. The building was public housing, so there were security cameras that showed this.
Some has speculated that Freddie ingested his stash at that time. The autopsy should answer a lot of questions.
The paddy wagon wasn’t going off road. You just do not bounce around the inside on a city street. The other prisoner who was in the paddy wagon but in a different compartment heard noise in the back. My belief is he was trying to bust out and killed himself doing so.
The other speculation about him being high on drugs and the fact Marilyn Mosby will not release the autopsy report shows to me the officers did nothing to him.
Freddie Gray killed himself.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!