Ben Carson: Freddie Gray's Injury 'Almost Impossible to Acquire by Simply Rolling Around in a Van'

Christian Post ^ | 05/05/2015 | Leonardo Blair

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Renowned neurosurgeon and potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, said Friday that the injury suffered by 25-year-old Freddie Gray who died on April 19 after being gravely injured while in the custody of Baltimore police officers "would be almost impossible to acquire…by simply rolling around in a van."

In an announcement highlighting criminal charges against six Baltimore police officers Friday, the city's newly elected State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Gray suffered a spinal injury while being transported in a police van and charged that the failure of the police to put a seatbelt on him was a crucial factor in how he was injured.

"Mr. Gray suffered a severe and critical neck injury as a result of being handcuffed, shackled by his feet and unrestrained inside the B.P.D. wagon," said Mosby.

An earlier report in The Washington Post citing a police document had suggested that Gray may have been intentionally trying to hurt himself while being transported in the police van.

Carson, who served as head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before retiring in 2013, said however that it is quite unlikely that Gray's injury was self-inflicted.

"The type of injury incurred by Mr. Freddie Gray at the base of the cervical spine with significant damage to the spinal cord requires a great deal of direct pressure to that area. It would be almost impossible to acquire such an injury by simply rolling around in a van, regardless of how violently," said Carson in a post to his Facebook page. "Therefore, there is a high likelihood that direct trauma occurred."

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

In fact, it is to be expected because police are human beings that make mistakes.

The difference is that when you or I make mistakes, they don't result in people being beaten, imprisoned, or killed.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So what? With hundreds of police departments, police make mistakes as one did with Dillon Taylor. They should be fired and/or charged.

And yet nothing happened to the officer who shot Dillon Taylor.

[Kazan]

So where's the line between holding police responsible for their mistakes and firing them and "an anal exam every time they have to use force," as you put it, that will make them reluctant to do their jobs?

How many times have you been arrested? Are you afraid of the police coming and take your pot away?

Where ever the line is, it has been crossed in Ferguson, NYC and Baltimore.

There is no evidence of widespread police brutality or racism. Stirring up all these hatred of police makes it harder for them to do their jobs and is going result in explosion of crime.

Libertarians are stupid as Al Sharpton and Obama for instigating these attacks against police.

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Ben Carson: Freddie Gray's Injury 'Almost Impossible to Acquire by Simply Rolling Around in a Van'

"almost impossible"....

Therein lies the problem. His spine was damaged. Was it damaged near the brainstem? Was it damaged in the mid-back area? He did nearly a week after the arrest. What is being certified as the actual cause of death?

Knowing the TRUE FACTS will allow for the TRUTH to emerge.

The details, which I assume, are being investigated, are yet to be revealed.