The arrest had nothing to do with drugs. It was an arrest over a common pocket knife, that under Baltimore’s vague difinition, the arresting officer called a switchblade.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3285195/posts
Only because the drugs were gone by the time the police caught up with him. Why do you think he ran ? The description was given that Gray and the COP made eye contact. Gray had an arrest record for selling drugs/possessing large quantities of drugs, and in all probability was out there selling drugs when the cop 'eyeballed' him.
It was an arrest over a common pocket knife, that under Baltimore’s vague difinition, the arresting officer called a switchblade.
Meaning that is all they could arrest him for since he had run away and ditched the drugs. A bogus charge ? Pretty much.
Should they just have let him go ?