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Riot first, ask questions later.
At best you could prove that people jumped the gun.
You could prove that people on the left and the Obama administration are feeding this narrative. " Black Lives matter ", only when there's a assumption that they were murdered by the Police.
Killed by Gang violence ? Nah, nothing to protest about.
Now every inner city is one assumption away from a full blown riot.
As I said to Excon, riots aren't intelligent beasts waiting patiently for data, they are predatory. You can prove that people jumped the gun, but that's pretty much all it would demonstrate.
However, even if true the police are still contributors. They did not restrain him properly in the van and they did not get him medical attention quickly enough. These are even admitted to by the police. Also keep in mind that the other prisoner could not see Gray, he heard him thumping about. Was he properly restrained? How were the conditions of the ride? That GPS thing can be used to determine the route taken. If they left him unrestrained and purposefully have him a "bumpy ride", then it's quite easy to see that he could have essentially been thrown about the van, but not by choice.
So in the end, it doesn't fully answer the questions. Video would answer the questions, but we don't have those.