Posted on 06/23/2015 5:14:15 PM PDT by blueyon
Freddie Gray suffered a single "high-energy injury" — like those seen in shallow-water diving incidents — most likely caused when the police van in which he was riding suddenly decelerated, according to a copy of the autopsy report obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
The state medical examiner's office concluded that Gray's death could not be ruled an accident, and was instead a homicide, because officers failed to follow safety procedures "through acts of omission."
Though Gray was loaded into the van on his belly, the medical examiner surmised that he may have gotten to his feet and was thrown into the wall during an abrupt change in direction. He was not belted in, but his wrists and ankles were shackled, making him "at risk for an unsupported fall during acceleration or deceleration of the van."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
He decided that standing up in a moving vehicle was a good idea? While he was shackled?
Dumbass.
And the "homicide" thing? Like that wasn't foreordained ...
‘Homicide’ and not willful negligence? So, the driver set out to kill Freddie Gray from the get-go?
So he was killed by inaction? More like he did it to himself like his van mate said
And Mosby is already cashing in.....
http://www.vogue.com/13274162/marilyn-mosby-baltimore-prosecutor/
Homocide includes negligent homocide. /not a comment on this matter, just stating a fact
anybody know why the other people in the van weren’t hurt, I heard there were several.
BTW I also heard the seatbelt rule was only about a week old.
In an autopsy, “homicide” merely means a death that is, in the M.E.’s view, caused by another. Does not imply intent, or even necessarily criminality.
So, is it the medical examiner's place to postulate facts that may or not be present in the investigation? Could she also suggest that another prisoner shoving him head first into a wall could have caused the injury? I am not saying that is what happened, but I thought it was the responsibility of the medical examiner to determine exactly what injury/illness caused death, not guess how it might have happened.
Michael Berry discussion this today on his radio program. He specifically questioned the M.E. commenting on police procedures. Really outside the scope of an autopsy.
New policy went into effect April 3rd. Gray was injured on April 12th, and died on April 19th.
One article cited the policy this way:
"The document, released by a police department spokesman, states that officers should 'ensure the safety of the detainee' and that 'all passengers, regardless of age and location, shall be restrained by seat belts or other authorized restraining devices.'"
As I stated on another thread, it says seat belt OR other authorized restraining devices. It doesn't explicitly state seatbelt AND other restraining device. It could mean either/or, and leaves the opportunity for individual interpretation based on the situation. Authorized restraining devices are cuffs (regular or plastic), and leg irons which come with various lengths of chain. When we transported prisoners in NY State Corrections, the inmates wore leg irons and cuffs. We also used what we called a black box, which locked over the key holes of the cuffs, and was secured in place with a heavy link chain which went around the inmate's waist and through the box itself, and was then padlocked. Any extra length of chain was padlocked to the chain to keep it was swinging. Our prison transport vans had seatbelts, but prison buses were a different story.
I remember one time being sent to Upstate Medical in Syracuse to escort inmates back to their home facility. They had been injured in a transport bus accident. The officer fell asleep at the wheel and rolled the bus on the NYS Thruway. None of those inmates were belted in. The ones we escorted back received only minor injuries, but others were kept in the hospital.
That phrase is what will get them off, in my opinion. I will go out on a limb and suggest facts we don't yet have, but I would think police, when forced to restrain a person, are not using leg irons like you see in prison movies, but something that severely restricts movement. With that type of restraint, is it really better to have the prisoner sitting on a seat, or lying on his belly on the floor?
Exactly.
IF the M.E. "surmised" anything, they'll be torn to shreds by the defense attorney.
The M.E. is supposed to report "just the facts, ma'am".
If the trial is public, ala OJ, the prosecution is finished.
A stupid judge will allow "surmising". A smart judge will not allow it.
Either way, Baltimore burns to a crisp.
Hope the liberals are proud of their work here.
I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere... Was the van equipped with seat belts in the back?
...(or when his pot muddled brain caused him to stand up and run head in into the van wall while it was parked). They think the van hit him...I think he hit the van. Prove me wrong.
While we are told that, it is also true that none of the other arrestees that were in the paddy wagon that day complained of broken necks.
Also true is that Freddy tried to use the injury technique multiple times previously to try to get out of having to stay in a jail cell.
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