I will say that I was surprised that the mods left the posts - it was posted more than once - up and running. The source was very dubious and it was all somebody’s suppositions.
Unfortunately, I saw people on other threads even today citing the post as truth, so the damage has been done.
Personally, I think Freddie Gray had a very severe asthma attack and possibly a seizure as a result, and the police either ignored it or didn’t check him closely enough when they stopped the van. The thumping and even the broken back is consistent with the type of injuries sustained by people in the course of a major seizure. He wasn’t belted down, but his arms and legs were restrained, and bucking his body against them may well have resulted in a broken back.
So the police were at least negligent, possibly even criminally negligent, but it’s a long way from that to “police brutality” or even intentional injury.
But that’s just my theory, and that’s all I’m offering it as! One theory among many...
Wow. Don’t know much about Asthma attacks and didn’t know they could be so severe. If his hand and arms were restrained, the “nickel ride” as people are calling it, shouldn’t have broken his neck.
But what he heck, it was nice weather and no one in those groups is working for food, shelter or clothing so why not riot :) I don’t get the thinking.
The feds threw John Gotti in a cement cell right after chemo and some think they didn’t treat his severe gum infection on purpose and that is why he got throat cancer. Amnesty international wanted to petition on his behalf but he told them to go to hell. I’m American with Italian ancestors. Why would I care? he was a killer.
I'm going to wait for the autopsy report and sworn statements of the officers and witnesses before coming to any conclusion.
Rush-to-judgment is only OK for Obama and the mob inciters.
I actually commented that the thread should have been pulled, due to the absolute nothingness of the content. Turns out that it was good that it stayed up C O a Conservative to destroy it. A side benefit is for yet another exposure of shoddy journalism.
Seizure makes sense to me. Suggested yesterday on:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3284678/posts
Someone else on the thread wondered if it could have been from something like a burst condom in the stomach filled with some narcotic. If he was selling product In little baggies perhaps he swallowed them before capture. They burst, he OD’d, seized, and died. While we can’t say for certain if he had asthma; we know he sold drugs.