I’m not sure why he is being blamed from not restraining Gray.
Is it his job to retrain people placed in the back of the van by police officers?
Like I illustrated in my example, it makes sense why a van driver would have police officers come and deal with their prisoners instead of he himself dealing with their prisoners alone on the side of the street somewhere.
If I was a van driver, I would not open the back of the van at all by myself. To do so seems like asking for very bad things to happen to me. Prisoners are dangerous. Angry people in general are dangerous.
You try to help them, they kill you. That’s how people do sometimes.
So far I have seen no evidence at all that this van driver tried to kill Gray, or wanted Gray injured, or did anything at all suspicious, and it seems preposterous to me that he is charged with second degree murder.
To the prosecutor I say how did he murder Gray? Go on, draw a picture for me, step by step, paint a picture of murder for me. Show me.
What I heard was that the policy had changed on April 9th to require all passengers be restrained. They failed to do that. But the policy had just changed and they were not used to it.
I understand what you are saying about the driver not going back there, but it is not a brinks truck. I don’t think the risk is a lot less if someone else goes back there.